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Environmental risk deals with the probability of an event causing a potentially undesirable effect. Environmental risk assessment thus deals with the statistics (both qualitative and quantitative), because probability is the mathematical measure of risk, and with hazard assessment, which determines the nature of the undesirable effect.
“Kto ni riskuet, tot ni piot champanskoe”; Engl. trans. “He who doesn’t drink never gets to drink champagne”
—An old Russian proverb
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Sholarin, E.A., Awange, J.L. (2015). Environmental Risk and Decision Analysis. In: Environmental Project Management. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27651-9_7
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