R M Harrison & R E Hester 
Chemicals in the Environment [PDF ebook] 
Assessing and Managing Risk

Chapter One: The Current Regulation of Environmental Chemicals; Introduction; Protection of the Water Environment; Classification and Labelling of Chemicals; The Notification of New Substances Regulations; Existing Substances Regulations; New European Chemicals Policy; Other European and UK Regulations on Chemicals; International Activities on Chemicals; Voluntary Approaches to Control of Chemicals in the Environment; References; Chapter Two: Chemicals Risk Assessment and Management; Introduction; Types of Risk; Risks and Hazards; The Evidence for Harm Caused by Industrial Chemicals; Cost-Benefit; Perception of Chemical Risks and the Roles of the Advocates; The Problems in Controlling Risks from Chemicals; Industry Initiatives; REACH; Conclusions; References; Chapter Three: Future Perspectives in Risk Assessment of Chemicals; Introduction; Difficulties in Risk Assessment; Current Developments; Future Perspectives; Conclusions; References; Chapter Four: Assessing Risks to Human Health; Introduction; Chemical Hazard Assessment; Assessing Risk; Qualitative vs. Quantitative Risk Assessment; Role of Epidemiology; Applications of Molecular Toxicology; Uncertainties in Human Health Risk Assessment and the Role of Expert Committees; The Changing Face of Chemical Regulation in Europe; Future Perspectives; References; Chapter Five: Environmental Risk Assessment; What is Environmental Risk Assessment?; What are We Trying to Protect?; What is the EU Legislative Framework?; What are Some of the Challenges Associated with the Environmental Risk; References; Chapter Six: Risk Assessment of Metals in the Environment; Introduction; Ecological Risk Assessment; Comparison of Inorganic and Organic Contaminants; Problems with the Application of Traditional ERA Approaches to Metals; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter Seven: Partitioning, Persistence and Long-Range Transport of Chemicals in the Environment; Introduction; Partitioning; Persistence; Long-range transport; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References;

Ron Hester is an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of York. In addition to his research work on a wide range of applications of vibrational spectroscopy, he has been actively involved in environmental chemistry and was a founder member of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment Group. His current activities are mainly as an editor and as an external examiner and assessor on courses, individual promotions, and departmental/subject area evaluations both in the UK and abroad.