title: Efficient regulation of environmental health risks: the case of groundwater contamination in California.
abstract: This paper presents a method for incorporating uncertainty explicitly into risk assessment and risk management procedures and illustrates its use with an application to the case of pesticide contamination of groundwater. The analysis demonstrates the importance of incorporating uncertainty explicitly, of using consistent significance levels of risk to estimate the value of life and explore cost/risk trade-off, and illustrates the role of economic theory in coordinating interdisciplinary work in this area.
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010575:Pesticides; D011407:Propane / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides; C007318:1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane; D011407:Propane