COMPREHENSIVE RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT REFERENCE:

This Risky Business of Life

(Earth out and in balance)

Forward by Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Authors’ Biographies

0.1. Introduction and Overview
Vlasta Molak, Cincinnati, Ohio

I.1. Toxic Chemicals Non-Cancer Risk Analysis and US Institutional Approaches to Risk Analysis
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

I.2. Epidemiology and Cancer Risk Analysis
Herman Gibb, US EPA, Washington, DC

I.3. Epidemiology and risk analysis in occupational setting
Leslie Steyner, NIOSH Cincinnati, Ohio

I.4. Uncertainty and Variability of Risk Analysis
Richard Wilson, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts

I.5. Monte Carl Risk Analysis Modeling
David Vose, Wincanton, United Kingdom

I.6. An Overview of Probabilistic Risk Analysis for Complex Engineered Systems
Vicky Bier, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

I.7. Probabilistic Risk Analysis and Bays Theorem
Stan Kaplan, California

I.8. Risk Analysis of Natural and Man-made phenomena
Owen Roffman

I.9. Ecological Risk Analysis
Robert Lackey, US EPA, Corvalis, Oregon

I.10. Microbial risk analysis
James Shoebauer-Berigan US EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio

I.11. The Basic Economics of Risk Analysis
James Swaney, Wright Paterson University, Dayton, Ohio

I.12. Behavior of Systems under Extreme Conditions
Vsevolod Shakin, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

II.1. Chemical Risk Analysis in USA institutions
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc.

II.2. EPA - derived data bases for risk analysis
Mike Dourson, TERA, Cincinnati, Ohio

II.3. Food we eat and human health risk analysis
Colin Campbell, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

II.4. Our food choices and environmental risks
John Robbins, Earthsave, St. Cruz, California

II.5. Assessment of Residential Exposures to Chemicals
Gary Whitmyre and Jeffrey Driver, Technology Services Group, Inc. Washington, DC and Bert Hakkinen, Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati, OH

II.6. Pesticide Regulation and Human Health: The Role of Risk Assessment
Jeffrey Driver and Gary Whitmyre, Technology Services Group, Inc. Washington, DC

II.7. Biotechnology Risk analysis
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio and Smita Siddhanti, Washington, DC

II.8. Ionizing Radiation Risk Assessment
John Alvarez, Auxier & Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee

II.9. Superfund sites risk analysis
Smita Siddhanti, Mc Lean, Va

II.10 - Acute Toxicity Concentrations
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

II. 11. Analytical methods in risk analysis
Mahsud Rahman, IT, Cincinnati, Ohio

II.12. Lead: The Doom of Roman civilizations
Henryka Nagy, NIOSH Cincinnati, Ohio

II.13. Chlorinated organic compounds (Dioxin, PCBS, Benzofuranes etc).
Debdas Mukerjee, US EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio

II.14. Use of Risk Analysis in Pollution on Prevention
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

II.16 Integrated Risk Analysis of Global Climate Change
Alexander Shlyakhter and Richard Wilson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

II.16. Risk analysis and management of a 1.5 million inhabitant’s industrial city in Croatia
Brainier Molak, Zagreb, Croatia

II.17. Computer Software Programs, Databases, and the Use of the Internet, World Wide Web and other Online Systems
Bert Hakkinen, Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio

II.18. Computers: a panacea or a menace to humanity ills
Ramdas Reddy, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

III.1. Risk Perception and Trust
Paul Slovic, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon

III.2. The Insurability of Risks
Howard Kunreuther, Wharton School of Business, U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

III.3. White men and black women perceptions of risk
Paul Slovic et al., Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon

III.4.Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste disposal (NIMBY or real danger)
Paul Slovic et al., Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon

III.5. Setting Environmental Priorities Based on Risk
Paul Deisler, Texas

III.6. Comparative Risk Analysis: A Panacea or Risky Business?
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED-D, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

III.7. Economic advantages of clean environment
Mike Fremont, Cincinnati, Ohio

III.8. Environmental Justice
Rae Zimmerman, NYU, New York, NY

III.9. Law and Risk Assessment in the United States
Peter Burton Hutt, Covington and Burling, Washington, DC

III.10. Environmental law and policy
Howard Latin, Reuters University,

III.11. How to help protect local communities: laws and politics in the grass-roots
Mike.Fremont and Marylen Wall

III.12. How laws that protect us from harm are created in USA Congressman
Dennis Kucinich, US Congress, Washington, DC

III.13. Earth in perspective
M. Rees, Cambridge University, UK

III.14 International risks and benefits of policy choices

III.15. Globalization of commerce and its risks on local quality of life and democracy
Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth, Washington, DC

III.16. Risks and benefits of globalization and Internet communications: human habitats.
S. Sassen The University of Chicago and M. Castells, UC Berkeley, CA

III.17. The risks and the economics of war

IV.1. Science and politics of managing environmental risks in the USA
Henry Habicht, Washington DC and Chicago, Illinois

IV.2 Economics of Kyoto
Skip Laitner and Julie Gorte, US EPA and North East-North West Institute Washington, DC

IV.3. Emissions trading to reduce acid rain and greenhouse gasses
Mark Perlis, Washington, DC

IV.4 Using market rules of the game to promote environmental protection in the US and the World
Carlton Bartel, Wall street broker of utilities’ emissions, New York. New York

IV.5. Risks of energy uses: efficiency and business
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado

IV.6. Energy choices in a democratic society
L. Nader, UC Berkeley, California

IV.7. Using laws to manage risks
Jacob Sheer, NRDC, Washington, DC

IV.8. Keeping water fit to use
Kaniz Siddiqe, MSD, Cincinnati, Ohio

IV.9. Risk Management of Nuclear Power Industry
John Garrick, PLG, Newport Beach, California

IV.10. Seismic Risk Assessment and Management
William Dean, Sacramento, California

IV.11. Managing Natural Disasters in Developing Countries
Terri Lustig, UNDP, Australia

IV.12. Genetically engineered foods: monster-foods or salvation?
Vlasta Molak, Washington, DC

IV.13. Risk Analysis, International Trade and Animal Health
Stuart C. MacDiarmid, Wellington, New Zealand

IV.14. Keeping our food imports and exports healthy
Karen Morris, USDA, Omaha, Nebraska and Stan Kaplan, California

IV.15. Having enough food for humanity
Richard Hardiman, Rehovot, Israel

IV.16. Incorporating Tribal Cultural Interests and Treaty-Reserved Rights in Risk Management
Barbara L. Harper, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, Washington

IV.17. Sustainability in USA and the World
Peter Raven, Director, ST. Louis Botanical Gardens. St. Lois. Missouri

IV.18. Democracy as a tool in risk management of war
Ivo Banae, Dept. History, Yale University, New Haven

IV.19. Risk and culture
Mary Douglas, Oxford, London, England

IV.20. Global Use of Risk Analysis for Sustainable Development
Vlasta Molak, GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc., Cincinnati, OH