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Homework 1
1. What is the main purpose of environmental health assessment?
- The main purpose is to improve deliberate plans of actions that guide decisions aiming for desired outcomes.
7. What is impact assessment?
- In impact assessment the purpose is to evaluate the impact, for example what kind of impacts some environmental thing has. There are also directives that control how the impact assessment is done, for example some EU-directives. ----#: . Or what some "thing" has on environment or something else. In principle, impact assessment is any kind of assessment that considers any impacts, but it is true that particularly environmental impact assessment is quite strictly controlled by legislation in most parts of the world. For example, health impact assessment is much less regulated, although e.g. WHO has tried to formulate the general practice guidelines for HIA. --Mikko Pohjola 10:51, 28 January 2013 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
9. What are the dimensions of openness?
- Scope of participation, access to information, timing of openness, scope of contribution, impact of contribution.
←--#: . good brief and clear answers. --Mikko Pohjola 10:51, 28 January 2013 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)
Homework 3. feat. Kasperi Juntunen
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Homework 4. feat Kasperi Juntunen
Questions:
- What are the aims/goals of the strategy/program, i.e. what are the desired impacts and outcomes striven for?
RCI is a project is trying to make transition to sustainability and the main point is to reduce CO2 emissions. Another aim of this project is to make a broad public support and commitment for their goal.
- Who are those that benefit if the aims/goals of the strategy/program are reached?
On the long period everyone benefits if CO2 emissions are reduced. Society comes cleaner and the impacts to nature are not so harmful anymore.
- What are the actions that are needed/intended to take in order to progress towards the aims/goals?
In order to reduce CO2 economical actions and investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy, adaption, carbon capture, re-using and storage must be done. They also inform people and encourage them to take action.
- Who are those that actually realize these actions?
Policy makers, government, researchers and environment organizations. Also citizens can make difference by changing their habits of energy consumption.
- What are the decisions that are needed to make in order to enable/promote the actions?
Needed decisions are that policy makers should encourage or force companies and citizens to programs and actions that advance this project and the positive impacts to nature and society.
- What direct or indirect health impacts, positive or negative, these decisions and actions (may) have?
At first, reducing CO2 emissions means that also fine particle emissions are reduced so health impacts on fine particles are reduced, like cardiology and heart disease and respitory organ diseases. If these actions are made impacts to nature are reduced. The people who face these health impacts are the people and nature of Rotterdam. In order to make these decisions there must be done investments and actions which cost to economy but in long-term actions will end up to win-win results with nature, citizens and society.
- Formulate a plausible and meaningful specific assessment question that takes account of (some of) the aspects considered in above questions.
What are the actions which reduces CO2 emissions and what impacts these actions have?
- Extra question: In what ways your answers do or do not represent "shared understanding"? (The climate program/strategy can be considered a compilation of contributions by many experts and attempting to reflect the views and needs of different decision makers and stakeholders).it conforms to the decision,aims and strategies.
Our answers do represent shared understanding by including effects to nature, society and economy and health.