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A macro environmental risk assessment methodology for establishing priorities among risks to human health and the environment in the Philippines

Conference ·
OSTI ID:49448
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  1. PRC Environmental Management, Inc., McLean, VA (United States)
A macro environmental risk assessment (ERA) methodology was developed for the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) as part of the US Agency for International Development Industrial Environmental Management Project. The DENR allocates its limited resources to mitigate those environmental problems that pose the greatest threat to human health and the environment. The National Regional Industry Prioritization Strategy (NRIPS) methodology was developed as a risk assessment tool to establish a national ranking of industrial facilities. The ranking establishes regional and national priorities, based on risk factors, that DENR can use to determine the most effective allocation of its limited resources. NRIPS is a systematic framework that examines the potential risk to human health and the environment from hazardous substances released from a facility, and, in doing so, generates a relative numerical score that represents that risk. More than 3,300 facilities throughout the Philippines were evaluated successfully with the NRIPS.
OSTI ID:
49448
Report Number(s):
CONF-941189--; ISBN 1-56590-016-2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English