This book evaluates current technology and policy practices in the United States and Western Europe in the areas of environmental risk assessment, risk prioritization and risk management, and recommends strategies for successful risk management regarding cleanups in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

The primary focus is on the evaluation of proven risk management stategies, which can gain public and regulatory acceptance, and thereby accelerate the demonstration and use of innovative US and host country environmental technologies in CEE. This will, in turn, help to accelerate the use of innovative, cost-effective cleanup systems at US DOE sites, and the use of US environmental technologies in foreign markets.

The book emphasizes using risk management strategies as key components of integrated life cycle systems designed to treat hazardous/radioactive waste, and to remediate soil/groundwater plumes. Other topics of discussion include: partnerships with international companies for commercial applications; acceptance by CEE governments; and relationships to other US government initiatives.Contents:

• Development of a Risk-Based Environmental Management Process for the United States Department of Energy (R F Henderson)
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Risk-Based Decision Making (F L Parker)
• The IAEA Technical Co-Operation Project on Environmental Restoration of Sites Contaminated by Uranium Mining and Milling Activities in Central and Eastern Europe (M Laraia)
• From Dobris to Sofia and Beyond: What Can the European Environment Agency Do to Help Steer the Course? (D Stanners)
• Use of Mobile Laboratories for Identification of Pollutants and Risks (S Faccetti)
• Uncertainty in Risk Management: Applications to Environmental Cleanup in Europe (W E Kastenberg)
• Weaknesses in Vadose Zone Risk Estimation (L G Everett)
• Modern State of Groundwater Use, Contamination & Protection in Russia (I S Zekster)
• Major Environmental Risks of the Katowice Province and the Possibilities of Their Abatement (E Marchwinska)
• Risk Management Strategies in Hungary: The Role of the Institute for Central and Eastern European Cooperative Environmental Research (P I Richter)
• Previous Environmental Damage in the Czech Republic (M Stanzel)
• Risk Assessment as a Tool for Environmental Decision Making (J Mrkos)
• and other papers

Readership: Environmental technologists and managers.