ABSTRACT
The immediate impetus for health risk assessment was the challenge of carcinogenic chemicals, as well as radiation and hazardous waste sites. After focusing on these three, Chapter 2 reviews food hazards and infrastructure. Ecosystem-related risks, which are less studied than they should be, are the focus of the penultimate section. Terrorism risk analysis has attracted a great deal of attention and is the last focus. Several caveats are in order. I have not tried to cover every type of risk
assessment application, in other words, the chapter is not meant to be encyclopedic. Cyber-crime, sustainability and resilience, for example, are in the risk management chapter (Chapter 3). As noted in the preface, I have deliberately added examples from my experiences to add a flavor of the emotional as well as professional investment that risk analysts make assessing risk.
