Use your knowledge of environmental health risks associated with disasters.

Review the basic concepts of epidemiology.

This will provide a framework for characterizing the population-level risks associated with exposures resulting from the disaster.

A Solid Waste Disaster: A solid waste incinerator located in a large metro area was the target of a radical group of environmentalists, who bombed the incinerator in the middle of the night in order to prevent it from operating. The explosion resulted in the release hundreds of metric tons of dioxins and furans into the ambient air, as well as dust and smoke from fires which would persist for weeks.