Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis Assignments Notes Syllabus Risk analysis is becoming increasingly important in the determination of environmental policy. The regulator uses it to set standards, and the regulated community must therefore understand it in order to better comply with regulatory intent. The student will gain the greatest benefit by recognizing connections between the course material and their own areas of specialization. Inasmuch as it is used to set policy based upon risk to the general public, risk analysis cannot be divorced from its underlying ethical and application issues.
Risk analysis tries to provide a simple picture comprising all risks related to an issue.
Risk analysis requires consideration of a scope of factors so large as to mandate the use of computers. All risk analysis models are probabilistic computer calculations. As we believe in keeping students alive, this course will include neither field trips nor laboratory experiences. Notes and assignments will be available on this site. The textbook is specified in the syllabus.