| Title: |
Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
1995 |
| Availability: |
Defra: Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (1995) Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management. Defra, Nobel House, London, UK. First posted on http://www.defra.gov.uk in 2000
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Defra / DETR
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
HTML
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Tools and procedures
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Social
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| Short description: |
The guidelines presented in this document provide a common framework for risk assessment as a key part of the process of appraisal for environmental decision-making. They build on the UK Department of the Environment's 1995 publication A Guide to Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Environmental Protection. The guidelines set out some basic principles which the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and the Environment Agency would normally intend to use in the assessment and management of environmental risks and which are recommended for all public-domain risk assessments. The guidelines provide decision-makers, practitioners and the public with a consistent language and approach for environmental risk assessment and management.
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| Long description: |
Originally produced by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (which was incopopraed in part into Defra) and theEnvironment Agency.
Chapter 1
Introduction to the guidelines
1.1 Background
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Scope
1.4 The framework
1.5 Environmental risk management and sustainable development
1.6 Risk management and the precautionary principle
1.7 Justifying an intention
1.8 Further information
Chapter 2
A framework for environmental risk assessment and management
2.1 An overall framework
2.2 Key stages in each tier of environmental risk assessment
2.3 Options appraisal
Chapter 3
The social aspects of risk
3.1 Background
3.2 Why consider the social dimensions of risk?
3.3 Risk perceptions
3.4 Trust and credibility
3.5 Equity
3.6 Responses to risk and the role of the media
3.7 Risk communication
3.8 Stakeholder participation
3.9 Further information
Chapter 4
Problem formulation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Defining the intention
4.3 Justifying an intention
4.4 Setting the boundaries
4.5 The controlling factors
4.6 Developing a conceptual model
4.7 Further information
Chapter 5
Risk screening and prioritisation
5.1 Background
5.2 Why screen and prioritise?
5.3 Key criteria for risk screening
5.4 Methods for risk screening and prioritising
5.5 Prioritising effort
5.6 Further information
Chapter 6
Quantification and dealing with uncertainty
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Types of quantification
6.3 Dealing with uncertainty
6.4 Further information
Chapter 7
Evaluating the significance of a risk
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Risk estimation as a basis for risk management decisions
7.3 Factors influencing the significance of a risk
7.4 Other significant factors
7.5 Further information
Chapter 8
Options appraisal and decision-making
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Trade-off analysis: methods for decision-making
8.3 Which technique?
8.4 Iteration
8.5 Risk communication and decision-making
8.6 Further information
Chapter 9
Monitoring
9.1 Introduction
9.2 What to monitor
9.3 Designing the monitoring programme
9.4 Interpreting and dealing with monitoring data
9.5 Further information
Annex I
Case studies
A1.1 Risk assessment for the release of genetically modified sugar beet
A1.2 Risk assessment for road transport: a semi-quantitative methodology
A1.3 Risk assessment of coastal flooding: a semi-quantitative methodology
Annex II
Bibliography
Annex III
Sources of further information
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 08/04/2005
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