Organisation Outline:
The Centre for Environmental Risk (CER) was established in the School of Environmental Sciences in 1986.
CER research activity involves full-time research personnel spanning a very wide range of disciplines from Environmental Sciences through Geography, Sociology and Social Psychology.
Research projects undertaken in CER can be divided up into several research areas:
- Uncertainty, Precaution and Innovation
- Risk, Science and Safety
- Environment and Health Risk Assessment
- Environmental Contamination and Pollution Monitoring
- Risk Perception and Social Acceptance
- Economic Valuation and Management
- Stakeholder Processes
- Waste Management
- PCBs and Dioxins in the Food Chain
- Geographic Information Systems
- Safety Culture and Organisational Dynamics
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