title: Risk assessment of landfill disposal sites--State of the art.
abstract: A risk assessment process can assist in drawing a cost-effective compromise between economic and environmental costs, thereby assuring that the philosophy of 'sustainable development' is adhered to. Nowadays risk analysis is in wide use to effectively manage environmental issues. Risk assessment is also applied to other subjects including health and safety, food, finance, ecology and epidemiology. The literature review of environmental risk assessments in general and risk assessment approaches particularly regarding landfill disposal sites undertaken by the authors, reveals that an integrated risk assessment methodology for landfill gas, leachate or degraded waste does not exist. A range of knowledge gaps is discovered in the literature reviewed to date. From the perspective of landfill leachate, this paper identifies the extent to which various risk analysis aspects are absent in the existing approaches.
authors.affiliation: The Sustainability Centre in Glasgow, George Moore Building, 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, UK. t_e_butt@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Talib E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Butt
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lockley
authors.forename: Kehinde O K
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Oduyemi
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical