Short Minutes workshop Kuopio
Short minutes of the workshop meeting at Tuesday the 13th of March
Discussion about the proposed framework of the case study
- Driving forces are economic activities as well as leisure activities
- Cancer is also a potential health effect
- Indicators are part of the methods and should go to the ongoing processes
- Accidents as a kind of exposure which leads to injuries and traffic deaths, or fear for accidents which can independently lead to sleep disturbances as well as other diseases
- Intake fractions are one suggested method and we ll have to see how this interlinks with the available exposure-response functions.
- The yellow boxes are emphasizing the methods; they can have the same structure as the blue boxes (variables):
1. Name 2. Scope 3. Description 4. Definition (describe 1. arrows leading to your box, 2) data needed, 3) methods 5. Unit 6. Results
Everyone has been divided to some boxes, emphasize on what you need as input, and what as an output of your method/model. There has been created new pages for all of the boxes, one should be working on these sites.
We will have a practical approach, although it should be kept in mind that (implicit and explicit) decisions made should be as clear as possible.
Please keep in mind is that the aim of the whole INTARESE project is to give guidance on integrated HIA. Our aim is to test the methods/tools available till now, and if they are linked to each other (output methods 1 = input method 2)? Do not focus too much on the case study itself.
Preliminary decisions (with no good reasoning behind, yet)
- Focus on airports systems (Schiphol), although other data can be used as well.
- Focus on airports systems with a radius of 20 km around the airport
- Focus on air pollution, noise and accidents. Why? These environmental problems are the most important ones and most data available is about these environmental problems. Would it be useful to include e.g. odour as well as on that topic little data is available, which is often the case in INTARESE policy assessments and in HIAs in general.
- As air pollution we have decided to focus on the air pollutants PM, CO and O3, to avoid double counting. However, these decisions depend also on the available exposure-response functions (ERFs).
