NANO LCRA — An Adaptive Screening-Level Life Cycle Risk Assessment Framework for Nanotechnology

This chapter brings together many of the central concepts developed in the preceding chapters to arrive at the core theme of this book — adopting life cycle thinking and risk assessment for managing the hazards of nanomaterials and nanotechnology. Building on the basic understanding of risk assessment given in Chapter 2, it describes the concepts of adaptive management and screening-level analysis, and explains NANO LCRA, the proposed adaptive screening-level risk assessment framework that incorporates life cycle thinking.