Setting Environmental Standards: The Statistical Approach to Handling Uncertainty and Variation

Introducing a novel approach to setting environmental pollution standards that allow for proper treatment of uncertainty and variation, this book surveys the forms of standards and proposes a new kind of "statistically verifiable ideal standard."
Setting Environmental Standards includes:

a current analysis regarding the treatment of uncertainty and variation in environmental standard setting

a review of basic principles in standard setting, including costs, actions and effects, and benefits

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