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http://dx.doi.org/10.14249/eia.2021.30.6.413

Methodological Improvement of the Cumulative Risk Assessment of Health Impact Assessment in Environmental Impact Assessment - Focused on the Industrial Complex Development Projects in the Last Decade -

Kim, Eunchae (Korea Environment Institute)
Ha, Jongsik (Korea Environment Institute)

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Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment / v.30, no.6, 2021 , pp. 413-424 More about this Journal

Abstract

Health impact assessment in the environmental impact assessment is conducted to determine whether to exceed the standard of each single substance and to establish appropriate reduction measures. In some development projects, although all substances in risk assessment meet the standard, exposure concentration is very close to it. However, considering the cumulative exposure of all substances, health effects are likely to occur considerably severer than those of individual substances, so it is necessary to prepare a concrete and improved methodology for integrating evaluation of emissions to identify the health effects actually exposed to receptors of living things. This study established the definition of cumulative risk assessment through overseas advanced cases and domestic and foreign literature reviews, and proposed a methodology for utilizing cumulative risk assessment considering health effects on multiple substances when developing industrial complexes. Applied by the proposed methodology, integrated indicators forfourtypes of hazardous heavy metals (Ni, Cr⁶⁺, Cd, As) emitted from industrial complexes were calculated, and applicability was tested with case of the industrial complex development projects conducted over the last decade (2011-2020).

Keywords

Environmental impact assessment; Health impact items; Hygiene and public health; Cumulative risk assessment; Methodological improvement;

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