Guidebook

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Table of Contents for the Guidebook

Guidebook main page

• short description of what the Guidebook (and Resource Centre) is
• link to special pages ("menue" pages / interactive guidance) for the different user groups, e.g. policy makers, assessors, public
• link to the help
• link to the glossary
• ...

General assessment framework

1. Introduction
   1. Aim of the Guidebook WP 4.2
   2. Scope of the Guidebook WP 4.2
2. General assessment framework | Categories: Assessment frameworks
   1. Purpose and properties of good assessments WP 1.1
   2. Societal context of assessments
   3. Evaluating assessment performance
   4. General assessment processes WP 1.1
      1. Information processing D↷
         1. Observing (actually belongs to basic science but is described here for completeness)
         2. Information collection
         3. Information synthesis
            1. Budding new objects
            2. Forming new classes
      2. Assessment process management
         1. Assessment process phases
         2. Process development
   5. Universal products | Categories: Universal object | Assessment objects
      1. Assessment | Categories: Assessments | Risk assessments
      2. Variable | Categories: Variables
      3. Class | Categories: Classes
      4. Causal network

Intarese framework

1. Intarese framework | Categories: Assessment methods | Method | Risk assessment methods | Assessment tools WP 1.1
   1. Scientific context
      1. Domain description
         1. Full chain
            1. Emissions
            2. Exposures
            3. Exposure-response function
            4. Health impacts and valuation
   2. Policy context
   3. Societal context
   4. Technical context
2. Performing an assessment WP 1.1
   1. Issue framing | Tools: Issue framing tool WP 1.1
      1. Scoping an assessment WP 1.1
         1. Defining the purpose of an assessment
         2. Defining the users of an assessment
      2. Applying general information | Tools: Result database
      3. Drawing a causal diagram WP 1.1 and 1.4
   2. Designing variables | Tools: Object design tool WP 1.4
   3. Executing variables and analyses | Tools: Analysis tool | External model tool | Extracted model tool | Uncertainty tool
      1. Variable transfer protocol
   4. Reporting an assessment | Tools: Reporting tool WP 1.1 and WP 4.2

General methods

1. Processes that cover or relate to several phases or steps D↷
   1. Participating in assessments WP 1.1 and 1.4
      1. Mass collaboration | Tools: Collaborative workspace WP 1.4
      2. Organizing stakeholder involvement WP 1.1 and 1.4
      3. Organizing assessment-policy collaboration
      4. Dealing with disputes | Categories: Open discussions WP 1.1 and 1.4
   2. Expert panel/elicitation
   3. Multiple-bias modelling
   4. GIS and spatial issues
   5. Assessing uncertainty | Tools: Uncertainty tools (Aguila, MNP) D↷
      1. Estimating uncertainties WP 1.5
      2. Propagating uncertainties WP 1.5 (but will WP 1.5 cover this at all?)
      3. Value of information analysis WP 1.4
   6. Collective structured learning | Tools: Result database D↷
   7. Quality assurance and quality control | Categories: Pages of assessed quality

Methods related to a particular step in the full chain

1. Methods related to a particular step in the full chain | Categories: First level scoping objects D↷ D↷ D↷
   1. Activity modelling | Categories: Policy options | Activities
   2. Emission modelling | Categories: Pollutants | Emission releases | Emission sources | Emission factors and activities WP 4.2 and 2.x (estimation of emissions into different media due to activities / driving forces)
      1. including emission scenario building???
   3. Source-to-exposure modelling / environmental fate modelling | Categories: Fate and transport | Pathway media | Concentrations in the environment WP 1.2
      1. Atmospheric environmental fate models /dispersion models (estimation of concentration in air due to releases into air)
      2. Multimedia environmental fate models (estimation of concentration in env. media due to releases into the media)
      3. Intake fraction (relating intake to emissions)
      4. Source apportionment (for a given concentration find the related pollutant sources)
   4. Exposure modelling | Categories: | Exposures | Population behaviour WP 1.2 (estimation of the exposure of the population, disaggreated by pollutants/stressors, micorenvironments, times, ...)
      1. including exposure scenarios
   5. Internal dose modelling | Categories: Doses WP 1.3 and WP 2.2
      1. Pharmacokinetic modelling
      2. Biomonitoring
   6. Exposure-response function modelling | Categories: Health effects | Exposure-response functions WP 1.3 and 2.2 and 2.3
      1. Performing meta-analysis (deriving ERFs from several studies)
      2. Combining toxicological and epidemiological information (deriving better ERFs/DRFs)
   7. Health impact valuation | Categories: Costs and valuations WP 1.4
      1. Risk appraisal framework | Categories: Appraisal
         1. Distance to (regulatory) target (define, if a policy/measures are suitable to fulfill a given target and/or how far the actual/modelled situation is from the target situation)
         2. Impact estimation | Categories: Non-health impacts ----#(number):: . ??? --Alexandra Kuhn 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
         3. Monetary estimation ----#(number):: . ??? --Alexandra Kuhn 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
         4. Risk perception and acceptability ----#(number):: . below is also perception --Alexandra Kuhn 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
         5. Equity estimation ----#(number):: . below is also equitiy issues --Alexandra Kuhn 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
      2. Burden of disease measures ----#(number):: . Could we accumulate it like this? --Alexandra Kuhn 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
         1. Disability-adjusted life years (summarized burden of disease adding up increased mortality (years of life lost) and years lived with disability: DALY translates the impacts of diseases into life years based on their severity and duration, so that different diseases can be measured using a single currency, the life year.)
         2. Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs evaluate the quality of life in a certain health state, not disease)
      3. Monetary valuation (Possibility to compare and/or aggregate different impacts (e.g. health endpoints, cancer case, cough day, biodiversity loss). Weighing of impacts; convert everything to one unit (to make it comparable))
         1. Discounting
         2. Transferability of monetary values (making monetary values usable in another context (e.g. country))
         3. Contingent valuation studies (CVS) (Determining the willingness to pay (monet. values) for goods/utility changes that are not traded on the market, e.g. health effects. In principle this is not contrained to ask for WTP, is it???)
            1. WTP (Preference of the population to avoid utility change; weighing, e.g. health effects)
      4. Including value judgements (being able to compare s.th. in including judgements about values; preferences)
         1. Risk perception (is this a process or product?; ???)
         2. Equity issues

Related frameworks and issues

1. Related assessment frameworks
   1. Impact assessment
   2. Chemical risk assessment
   3. Cumulative risk assessment (U.S.EPA)
   4. Cost-benefit analysis D↷ (to overall compare different options, taking into account costs and benefits)
   5. Cost-effectiveness analysis (to compare different options that have the same aim; the effects are not compared in monetary values)
   6. Multi-attribute utility analysis
2. Other important issues that are outside Intarese framework
   1. Global warming
   2. Accidents
   3. Ecosystems and biodiversity

Pages available for release in Intarese

• See Intarese:Category:To be released for pages that should be moved to Heande and taken as part of the Guidance system.
• See Intarese:Category:Release suggested for pages that should be moved to Heande but the content owner has not yet given the permission.

The pages of the Pyrkilo guide 2

The table contains all pages that are attached to the Intarese:Help:Pyrkilo guide 2 page. The second column (where it should go) talks about where the current content of the page should go. It does not imply that the scopes of the old and the new page should be the same.

In the Guidebook

The location in Intarese (links redirect to the current page)	Where it is now
Intarese:Help:Analysis tool	Tool:Analysis tool
Intarese:Help:Applying general information	Method:Applying general information
Intarese:Help:Class	Universal products:Class
Intarese:Help:Collaborative workspace	Tool:Collaborative workspace
Intarese:Help:Designing variables	Method:Designing variables
Intarese:Help:Dispute	Method:Dealing with disputes
Intarese:Help:Drawing a causal diagram	Method:Drawing a causal diagram
Intarese:Help:Executing variables	Method:Executing variables
Intarese:Help:External model	Tool:External model
Intarese:Help:Extracted model	Tool:Extracted model
Intarese:Help:Issue framing tool	Tool:Issue framing tool
Intarese:Help:Mass collaboration	Method:Mass collaboration
Intarese:Help:Model extractor	Tool:Extracted model tool
Intarese:Help:Object design tool	Tool:Object design tool
Intarese:Help:Purpose of a risk assessment	Method:Defining the purpose of an assessment
Intarese:Help:Reporting a risk assessment	Method:Reporting an assessment
Intarese:Help:Reporting tool	Tool:Reporting tool
Help:Result database	Tool:Result database
Intarese:Help:Risk assessment structure	Universal product:Assessment
Intarese:Help:Scoping a risk assessment	Method:Scoping an assessment
Intarese:Help:The phases of a risk assessment	Method:Performing an assessment
Intarese:Help:Universal information structure for risk assessment products	Theoretical foundation:Universal products
Intarese:Help:Users of the pyrkilo method	Method:Defining the users of an assessment
Intarese:Help:Variable	Universal products:Variable
Intarese:Help:Variable transfer protocol	Method:Variable transfer protocol
Intarese:Help:Managing stakeholder involvement	Method:Organizing stakeholder information
Intarese:Help:Variable definition	Universal products:Variable
Intarese:Help:Plausibility tests	Universal products:Variable
Intarese:Help:General properties of good risk assessments	General assessment framework:Purpose and properties of good assessments
Intarese:Help:Performance	General assessment framework:Evaluating assessment performance
Intarese:Help:Societal role of risk assessment	General assessment framework:Societal context of assessments
Intarese:Help:Open participation in risk assessment	Method:Participating in assessments
Intarese:Help:Risk assessment process	Theoretical foundation:General processes
Intarese:Help:Uncertainty	Method:Assessing uncertainty
Intarese:Help:Contributing to a discussion	Method:Dealing with disputes

In other parts of the Guidance system

The location in Intarese (links redirect to the current page)	Where it is now
Intarese:Help:Causality	Glossary:Causality
Intarese:Help:Decision variable	Glossary:Decision variable
Intarese:Help:Value judgement	Glossary:Value judgement

The new location not yet clear

The current location in Intarese	Where it should go
Intarese:Help:Copyright issues	Method:Dealing with copyright issues
Intarese:Help:Data gateway	Tool:Data gateway
Intarese:Help:Encyclopedia on environmental health	Glossary:Encyclopedia on environmental health
Intarese:Help:Guidebook on risk assessment	Glossary:Guidebook
Intarese:Help:Integrated resource platform	Glossary:Resource platform
Intarese:Help:Open risk assessment (toolbox)	Glossary:Open assessment
Intarese:Help:Pyrkilo method (summary)	Glossary:Pyrkilo method