Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment

Handbook of Environmental Engineering Risk Assessment begins with an introduction to risk as an expected loss including techniques and applications including: flooding, drought, hurricanes, earthquakes, groundwater and forest fire assessment. This is followed by an exposition on probabilistic concepts and techniques, starting with random variables, stochastic processes, random fields, simple statistics, stationary and periodicity and independence and conditioning. Part three addresses system elements and system structure, Boolean logic and Elements of graph theory. Other topics include: Subjective probability (expert selection, etc.), The complementary roles of measurement and expertise, Statistical inference from empirical data, “Objective” probability.