Title :
Teaching environmental risk assessment to community groups
Author :
Vélez, A. ; Masten, S. ; Riley, Ic ; Szymecko, L. ; Voice, T. ; Chou, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. To facilitate community involvement in environmental management issues, workshops and lectures on human health risk assessment (RA) are designed for community groups. The article describes the development of lectures in risk assessment for community groups at contaminated sites. Methods of teaching and course organization are adapted to deal with the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of the subject and the heterogeneity of the audience
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; environmental engineering; health hazards; risk management; teaching; RA; community groups; community involvement; contaminated sites; course organization; environmental management issues; environmental risk assessment education; human health risk assessment; lectures; teaching; workshops; Contamination; Demography; Education; Environmental management; Hazards; Humans; Local government; Risk management; Scheduling; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual
Conference_Location :
Kansas City, MO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6424-4
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2000.897648
