Environmental Risk Assessment of Installations and Sites Inherited from the Cold War Period in Bulgaria

摘要

Managing legacy waste risks often starts with effective use of resources. This chapter explains how one Eastern European country reorganized its resources to address issues of risk associated with new and existing facilities and contaminated sites. For example, they have moved chemical hazard expertise from military organizations to civilian authority. The chapter describes how they are analysing various types of risk and how they plan risk management efforts. The chapter further looks at how more democratic institutions are empowering the public to challenge government decisions and how information can be provided to the public in a way that allows them to join in its evaluation. A new national system of emergency response is also described.