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Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving

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Written in a straightforward and almost conversational style, this book provides an introductory text on the topic of risk assessment. The book describes complex concepts in simple language and is thus effective in presenting the subject matter, Moreover, the exercises within each chapter are clearly designed to reinforce understanding of the topics covered. Overall, an excellent book for a student of risk assessment.

This book provides a lot of good example problems in the field of environmental risk assessment. However, it seems to lack follow-up discussion of the case studies. It is intended, perhaps, that the reader would work through the problems and then perhaps discuss them as in a class situation. There are questions following the problems that might be considered adequate to lead the reader to the point the authors were trying to make. Nonetheless, it would help the cohesiveness if there were some discussion of the problems rather than just going from one to the next.

Good Book, Very Helpful, It was very informative, Flowed with class letcure. Good seller. Quick Delivery, Do recommend. This book will help.

This was a good book, but I was disappointed in the number of unsolved problems. If I knew how to solve them I wouldn't need to buy the book, so it seems like it would have been a much better educational opportunity had there been some sort of answer key or guidelines following the questions. To be fair, there are some questions followed by solutions, but the harder ones are left to the reader to deal with on their own. The authors suggest that "additional unsolved problems reinforce the presentation", as if it should be a positive thing to leave people hanging in midair. However, like I wrote, it is a good book, it's just a shame that they didn't make it better by providing solutions to their very interesting questions. The authors themselves pointed out that it is hard to find the opportunity to study risk analysis, so they must be aware that at least some of the readers would not be in a classroom setting to take part in discussions on the unsolved problems.

If the authors ever read this, then I would highly recommend/beg making the solutions available on the internet.