ENVIRONMENT
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- risk analysis
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- Definition technique used to determine the likelihood or chance of hazardous events occurring, such as the release of a certain quantity of a toxic gas and the likely consequences Reference European Environment Agency (EEA), Gemet thesaurus, 1999
- Comment Originally developed for use in nuclear and chemical industry where certain possible events, of low probability, could have extremely serious results. Probabilistic risk analysis terms are being used to characterise environmental impacts, whose occurrence and nature are not easy to predict with any degree of accuracy.