Environmental Science

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Question Description

Risk assessment is the topic of this week's reading in Chapter 17.For this week's class discussion, to respond to the following:

  • Provide at least three examples of environmental health hazards.
  • Often you can't eliminate a hazard but you can control your risk. Name a hazard and how you would reduce your risk from that hazard.
  • Name a hazard that creates a high level of public outrage. Why?
  • Does public outrage always correspond to a high hazard? Why or why not?
  • Look at Figure 17-9. Pick one hazard and explain why there is a risk difference based income.


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