ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and discusses what appear to be the several mostly widely held concerns that have caused doubts about the ability to implement such a system. It explores additional concerns in designing a system of risk-based management for US Environmental Protection Agency. One problem in moving forward to actual implementation of a system for risk-based environmental management is that the very meaning of the phrase “risk-based management” has remained somewhat fuzzy. At certain points in Unfinished Business and in Reducing Risk, the intent of a system of risk-based management is stated to be risk-based priority setting; at others the intent is clearly risk-based resource allocation. Every person approaching the problem of how to break the environment into distinct environmental threats to be addressed in a system of risk-based management will have different thoughts regarding the best breakout to use.
