List of links to useful and interesting websites about environment and health

Miscellaneous

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• Finnish biogas pages
• EU sustainable traffic
• Finnish traffic biogas
• Bioenergy in farms (Finnish)
• IEA Open Energy Bulletin
• Swedish conference on traffic biofuels
• EU consultation on traffic biofuels
  • Response from TEP (Tekniikka elämää palvelemaan)
• A German newsletter on renewable energy
• Carless day
• 5th International Water History Association (IWHA) Conference, "Past and Futures of Water", 13-17 June 2007 Tampere, Finland
• Change and Sustainability in the Baltic Sea Area, Stockholm 20-21 November
• Material from Wuppertal Institute
• California and Sweden Sign Agreement to Jointly Develop Biomethane and Other Renewable Fuels
• Linking Schemes: Potential Impacts of Linking the EU Emissions Trading System with Emerging Carbon Markets in other Countries Brussels, 29-30 May 2006 (the Wuppertal Institute).
• WI newsletter: UNFCCC workshop exploring the possibilities of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) becoming a CDM project activity
• Teollisen ekologian seura
• Ympäristö, Yhdyskunta, Vesi & Viemäri, Jäte & Kierrätys 2006 - Ympäristöalojen ammattitapahtuma 18. - 20.10.2006
• Civil Society and Environmental Conflict: Public participation and regulation One-day International Conference Helsinki, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) 17 November 2006
• Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme in Food, Nutrition and Health
• Eurotox home page
• the Akademie Fresenius website: Up-to-the-minute information and industry contacts
• THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EFEIA)
• Ympäristöpolitiikan tehokkuus: oikeus, kansalaisten osallistuminen ja päätöksenteko (EMLE)
• arXiv.org Open access to 400,987 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology, maintained by Cornell University Library
• [2]This web site is created by the Worldwide Virtual Network of Young Researchers Working on Science and Society Issues. The project of developing a network emerged after our first meeting at the Workshop “Interfaces between Science and Society” held in Milano in November 27 - 28, 2003, and organised by the KAM Sector of the JRC-EC (http://alba.jrc.it/interfaces).
• Otakantaa Otakantaa.fi:ssä voit kommentoida valtionhallinnon hankkeita ja keskustella niistä.
• Kansanvalta.fi on suomalaista demokratiaa koskevan tiedon kohtauspaikka.
• Osoitteeseen http://www.ylihuominen.fi/nyt on avattu uusi ympäristöaiheinen tapahtumakalenteri, joka on kaikkien luettavissa. Se tiedottaa tilaisuuksista, jotka edistävät kestävän yhteiskunnan rakentamista tai joissa tehdään tulevaisuuttamme koskevia päätöksiä. Kuka tahansa voi lisätä kalenterisivustolle tapahtumatietoja. Tapahtuman on kuitenkin liityttävä aihepiiriin ja oltava kaikille avoin.
• Open-access community website environmentalresearchweb which is designed to keep scientists, policymakers and campaigners up to date with the latest news and views on environmental science topics. The site's coverage is in depth and wide-ranging, from climate change to biodiversity, from renewable energy to pollution, from economics to environmental legislation and from health issues to sustainability.
• Vattenfall climate change
• Vattenfall cost curve for global greenhouse gas emission reduction
• Liikenne 2030 report (in Finnish)
• Health Impact Assessment: seminar by STAKES, 21.-22.3.2007 Helsinki
• European Citizens' consultation 2007 | Report from Finland
• HUT STRaX: The Research Unit for Strategic Intelligence and Exploration of Futures
• Hiukkasfoorumi
• The CSCP - Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (a collaborative body linking UNEP and the Wuppertal Institute) and the German Society for Technical Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit - GTZ) have jointly published a compendium of policy instruments for resource efficiency. The compendium introduces a broad range of policy instruments that have shown success in increasing resource efficiency and promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns in a number of jurisdictions. In addition to traditional regulatory or 'command and control' approaches the compendium profiles a much wider array of policy tools including economic, information, cooperation and educational instruments.
• ProMidNord - Sustainable Development in the MidNordic Region Project duration: august 2004 - july 2007 ProMidNord is a projectinitiative of the MidNordic Committee to the Interreg IIIB -program.
• Formularium: Formulas for a calculating world
• First International Forum towards EVIDENCE-BASED TOXICOLOGY Conference Centre Villa Erba, Como, lake of Como, Italy. October 15 to 18, 2007 at Lago di Como, Italy
• environmentalresearchweb: the open-access community website that helps scientists, policymakers, campaigners and industry specialists stay up-to-date with the latest in environmental science.
• Environmental statistics of Helsinki]
• RMCI 2008 The 5th International Symposium on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics: RMCI 2008
• ENHIS: WHO Environment and health information system
• U.S.EPA: Integrated Risk Information System
• Risk assessment education website by Tom Hatfield

Ecology

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

EU Sixth framework program

• Framework 6 Official Site - http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/
• IPR Help Desk - http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org
• Partner searches - http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/Page.aspx?SP=250
• Project databases - http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/Page.aspx?SP=2501
• Glossary of terms - http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/Page.aspx?SP=2502
• Frequently Asked Questions - http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/Page.aspx?SP=1042
• Links to the ETI projects - http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/Page.aspx?SP=2504
• Audit Certificates and Guidance Notes - http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/find-doc-management.htm#audit
• EC Project Management Site (Reporting) - http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/find-doc-management.htm#reporting
• Dissemination and communication of EC Research - http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/science-communication/index_en.htm
• Open "Calls for Proposals" across the FP6 themes - http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/events.aspx?WCI=htmCalls
• Please remember that Calls for Proposals often have events organised by the Commission for those interested in participating, or regional events for specific FP6 areas. Please see the events calendar for details of current events: http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/events.aspx
• EU-funded environmental health research projects http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/themes/projects_en.htm
• Report on EU-funded environmental health research projects in the 5th framework programme http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/pdf/env_health_projects/env_health_brochure.pdf

Useful books (click ISBN to find more details)

Basic books about risks

• Richard Wilson - Edmund Crouch: Risk-Benefit Analysis ISBN 978-0674005297
• Granger Morgan - Max Henrion: Uncertainty: A Guide to Dealing with Uncertainty in Quantitative Risk and Policy Analysis ISBN 978-0521427449

Other books

• Globalization and Health ISBN 978-0-19-517299-7
• Public Health Ethics ISBN 978-0-19-518085-5
• Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health ISBN 978-0-19-929069-7
• Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation ISBN 978-0-19-852662-9
• Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation ISBN 978-0-19-856982-4
• Food, Health, and Policy (will be published June 2008) ISBN 978-0-19-856788-2
• An Introduction to Health Planning for Developing Health Systems ISBN 978-0-19-857134-6
• Healthier Societies ISBN 978-0-19-517920-0

Scientific societies

• International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, http://www.igbp.kva.se)
• SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, http://www.icsu-scope.org)

Data sources

• GAW World Data Station Information System
• Quality Assurance / Science Activity Center for the Americas
• The World Radiation Data Centre (WRDC) is one of recognised World Data Centres sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization.
• World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC)
• The World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG) is one of the WDCs under the GAW programme, and to gather, archive and provide data for greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O, surface ozone, etc.) and related gases (CO, NOx, SO2, VOC, etc.) in the atmosphere and ocean, observed under GAW and other programmes.
• [http://wdca.jrc.it/ The World Data Centre for Aerosols is one of five recognised World Data Centres which are part of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) program of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
• JRC Data sets
• PM2.5 concentration fields over Europe