546-0415/01 – Environmental Risk Assessment (HoEnvRiz)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Vladimír Lapčík, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Hana Švehláková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2004/2005 | Year of cancellation | 2014/2015 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
After completion of the „Complex Assessment of Environment“ students will understand the risk assessment and management of impact contamineted environment on human health and "health" of ecosystems according to US EPA method.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
The course will cover topics relating to characterizing source areas, linking fate and transport mechanisms, evaluating exposure pathways and applying toxicology data to evaluate human health risk and environmental risk in a variety of differing contexts. The methods to be presented are applicable to all types of environmental restoration and protection engineering problems. The focus will be primarily on human health risk related to both chemical release scenarios. One of the challenges of this course for students will be to evaluate information and processes that do not all originate from familiar engineering design models.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Solving of Case study.
E-learning
Other requirements
Activity at seminars.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Introduction. What is risk? What is a stressor? What is a hazard? Risk Assessment. Risk Management. EPA.
2.Natural risks. Antropogenous risks. Risk perception. Risk acceptance.
3.Human Health Risk Assessment: Planning and Scoping Process. Hazard identification.
4.Human Health Risk Assessment: Dose – response relationship.
5.Human Health Risk Assessment: Exposure assessment.
6.Human Health Risk Assessment: Risk charakterization.
7.Ecological Risk Assessment: Planning and Scoping Process. Problem formulation.
8.Ecological Risk Assessment: Methods. Conceptions.
9.Ecological Risk Assessment: Analysis.
10.Ecological Risk Assessment: Risk characterization.
11.Mathematical and statistical tools to analyze biological models.
12.Laws and Regulations.
13.Risk Management.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction