Midterm

Question 1

What is the definition of risk?

Answer 1

The severity of the event multiplied by the probability of the event

Question 2

How is the severity of an event measured?

Answer 2

Scale of low, medium, high

Question 3

What impacts your perception of risk?

Answer 3

1. A persons familiarity with risk
2. The certainty of the nature of the risk
3. Who is communicating about the risk

Question 4

Can a health risk be positive?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

What is the hazard in riding a mechanical bull?

Answer 5

The bull

Question 6

How likely is a 100 year flood?

Answer 6

There is a 1% probablility of it occuring in any given year

Question 7

What does a risk assessment describe?

Answer 7

The type and magnitude of an adverse affect

Question 8

The degradation of chlorine in the environment is an example of which of the pbt criteria?

Answer 8

Persistence

Question 9

What is a threshold dose?

Answer 9

the dose before health effects are observed

Question 10

Are people all impacted similarly by carcinigens?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Are public health mandated to oversee brownfield development by the OPHS

Answer 11

no

Question 12

What is the best source of evidence for risk assessment?

Answer 12

Toxilogical Reports

Question 13

In risk management, what does “blocking exposure pathways” mean?

Answer 13

Using a hard cap of soil to contain the contaminent

Question 14

What does the “weight of evidence” refer to?

Answer 14

How much evidence supports your hypothesis

Question 15

Provincial standards, such as regulations are the best information to use in a risk assessment

Answer 15

No, toxilogical reports

Question 16

What is the pbt criteria used for>

Answer 16

Assessing the severity of effects

Question 17

What is the benifit of the Health Impact assessment?

Answer 17

It uses a preventative approach to managing the issue

Question 18

Can the precautionary principle be used for any health risk?

Answer 18

no

Question 19

What is a limitation Environmental impact assessment?

Answer 19

It is strongly focused on quantitative approach to measur eimpact

Question 20

According to Tversky and Khaneman we are poor at decision making because…?

Answer 20

We allow emotions to influence our rational decisions

Question 21

Does the precautionary principle take into consideration peoples perception of risk?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

Does a vulnerability assessment predict health climate change impacts for a specific region?

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

Why is risk perception important>

Answer 23

It determines which hazards people care about and how they deal with them

Question 24

What does a climate risk assessment framework look at?

Answer 24

The economic impacts of climate change, the health impacts of climate change, and the environmental impacts of climate change

Question 25

Does the perception of risk vary across individuals?

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

What is bioaccumulation?

Answer 26

The build up of toxins in an organism

Question 27

What is toxicity?

Answer 27

The degree to which a substance is harmful to an organism

Question 28

What are brownfields?

Answer 28

former industrial lands

Question 29

What is the primary concern with brownfields?

Answer 29

They may be contaminated

Question 30

What are benefits of rehabilitating brownfields?

Answer 30

Economic Stability, increas property values, and revitalize urban settibgs

Question 31

What is phytoremediation?

Answer 31

The use of plants and trees to remediate areas

Question 32

What is a disadvantage of remeditation>

Answer 32

it is expensive, will not get rid of all pollution/ not completely effective

Question 33

What are the main points for the precautionary principle?

Answer 33

If it is potentially harmful, do not do it, shifts blame to the producer of harm