Priority Topics in the Study of Environmental Risk in Developing Countries: Report on a Workshop Held at the East–West Center, August, 1988

Sylvia A. Edgerton, Kirk R. Smith, Richard A. Carpenter, Toufiq A. Siddiqi, Steven G. Olive, Corazon Pe Benito Claudio, Vincent T. Covello, Donald J. Fingleton, Kwi‐Gon Kim and Bruce A. Wilcox

Risk Analysis, 1990, vol. 10, issue 2, 273-283

Abstract: The rapid industrialization occurring in developing regions of the world brings not only economic benefits, but changes in the types and severity of health and environmental problems that each region experiences. As the industrialized world moves toward the use of risk assessment methodologies to aid in problem evaluation and regulatory and policy decision analysis, it seems inevitable that these methodologies will be applied globally. The changes brought about by rapid industrialization, however, must be viewed within the context of societies that are still struggling with the more traditional and basic environmental problems associated with urban and rural poverty. The urgency of development and the lack of adequate resources for characterizing health and environmental changes, often present under these circumstances, offer special challenges to the application of risk assessment methodologies.

Date: 1990
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