"Hazardous Waste Risk Assessment" provides a concise yet comprehensive examination of concepts and techniques in risk assessment that can be applied to hazardous waste problems. The book emphasizes the use of health risk assessment to support management decisions on hazardous waste disposal and site remediation programmes. Methods discussed include those for developing strategies for health and environmental assessment and site restoration tasks, evaluating corrective action programmes, determining the effects of risk assessment results on risk management decisions in hazardous waste programmes and general risk management and prevention programmes, and performing safety evaluations of hazardous waste facilities. Step-by-step numerical case evaluations are used to help present the book in an easy-to-follow, realistic manner.