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== Table of Contents for the Guidebook==
[[Category:Guidebook]]
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|Parts of the Guidance system
: [[Guidebook]] | Categories: [[:Category:Guidebook|Guidebook]]
: [[Glossary]] | Categories: [[:Category:Glossary term|Glossary term]]
: [[Warehouse]]  | Categories: [[:Category:Assessments|Assessments]] | [[:Category:Risk assessments|Risk assessments]] | [[:Category:Variables|Variables]] | [[:Category:Classes|Classes]]
: [[Resource centre]] | Categories: [[:Category:Resource centre|Resource centre]]
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{{comment|#(number): |I think, the processes and products should be put together and not separated too much.|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 17:29, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
= Table of Contents for the Guidebook=


===Title list===
{{comment|#(number): |Due to a decision in the PSG in Intarese, the TOC of the Intarese Guidebook will partly heavily be changed. Therefore, I will start a new page for the "official system TOC" [http://pyrkilo.fi/intarese/index.php/Guidebook_TOC here] (Intarese wiki). It will be the basis for further discussions of WP 4.2 with SP 1. The [http://pyrkilo.fi/intarese/index.php/Resource_Centre_TOC Resource Centre Web page] will be the basis for communication with SP 2.  |--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 15:47, 20 May 2008 (EEST)}}


#Guidebook (product) 1
==Guidebook main page==
#Theoretical foundation
: short description of what the [http://pyrkilo.fi/intarese/index.php/Guidebook_TOC Guidebook] [[:Intarese:Help:Guidebook on risk assessment| (old)]] (and Resource Centre) is
##Policy context
: link to [[Special:Specialpages|special pages]] ("menue" pages / interactive guidance) for the different user groups, e.g. policy makers, assessors, public
##Scientific context
: link to the [[Help:Contents|help]]
##Impact assessment
: link to the [[Glossary|glossary]]
##Assessment framework
: ...
##Purpose and properties of good risk/impact assessments
##Societal context of risk/impact assessments
##Causal chain
##Process description
##Method
#Universal products
##Assessment (universal product)
##[[Help:Variable|Variable (universal product)]]
##Class (universal product)
#General processes
##Observing (process) [actually belongs to basic science but is described here for completeness]
##Information collection (process)
##Information synthesis (process)
##Process management (process)
##Description development (process)
#Performing an impact assessment (process description: assessment framework) 10 [Necessary phases of performing an assessment]
##Issue framing (process description)
###Scoping (process description)
###Applying general information (process description)
###Causal diagram (process description) 34
##Designing variables (process description)
##Executing variables and analyses (process description)
##Reporting an assessment (process description) 67
#Methods related to a particular step in the causal chain
##Emission modelling (process description) 36-39
##Exposure modelling (process description)
###Source-to-exposure modelling (process description) 40
####Atmospheric models (process description)
####Aquatic models (process description)
####Multimedia models (process description)
###Source apportionment
###Intake fraction (process description)
##Exposure-response function modelling (process description)
###Performing meta-analysis (process description) 48
###Combining toxicological and epidemiological information (process description)
##Risk characterisation (process description) 51
###Risk appraisal method (process description)
####Distance to (regulatory) target (process description)
####Impact estimation (process description)
####Monetary estimation (process description)
####Risk perception and acceptability (process description)
####Equity estimation (process description)
###Disability-adjusted life year (process description) 52
###Quality-adjusted life year (process description) 52
###Monetary valuation (process description) 59
###Discounting (process description) 64
###Risk perception (process description) 55
###Value judgement (process description) 56
###Equity issues
#Processes that are useful or necessary and cover several phases or steps
##Open participation in (risk) assessment (process description) 8
##Stakeholder involvement (process description) 68
## Expert panel / elicitation
## Multiple-bias modelling
## GIS and spatial issues
##Uncertainty assessment (process description)  39, 43, 49, 58, 65, 69
###Estimating uncertainties (process description)
###Propagating uncertainties (process description) 72
###Value-of-information analysis (process description) 57
###Uncertainty tools (process: tool) 76
## Collective structured learning
## Mass collaboration
## Dealing with disputes
#Introduction to important topics in the Resource Centre
##Health impacts (universal product)
##Emissions (product: class)
##Exposures (product: class)
##Exposure-response function (product: class) 44
##Impacts (product: class) 77
#Other assessment frameworks
##Cost-benefit analysis (process description) 62 {{attack|#(number): |Why is this "another framework"?|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 10:27, 17 January 2008 (EET)}}
##Cost-effectiveness analysis
##Multi-attribute utility analysis (process description) 55
##Important issues that are outside the (health) impact assessment
### Global warming 78
###Accidents 79
###Ecosystems and biodiversity 80


===Page contents in more detail===
==General assessment framework==
:Introduction
::Aim of the Guidebook WP 4.2
::[[:Intarese:WP4.2_Guidance_system_Functionality|Scope of the Guidebook as stated in WP 4.2]]
:[[General assessment framework]] | Categories: [[:Category:Assessment frameworks|Assessment frameworks]]
::[[Purpose and properties of good assessments]] WP 1.1
::[[Societal context of assessments]]  WP 1.1
::[[Evaluating assessment performance]]  WP 1.4
::[[General assessment processes]] WP 1.1
:::Information processing {{reslink|Information processing methods by sub-processes}}
::::[[:en:Observation|Observing]] (actually belongs to basic science but is described here for completeness)
::::Information collection
::::Information synthesis
:::::[[Object design tool|Budding new objects]]
:::::Forming new [[Class|classes]]
:::Assessment process management
::::Assessment [[Process|process]] phases
::::Process development
::[[Universal products]] | Categories: [[:Category:Universal object|Universal object]] | [[:Category:Assessment objects|Assessment objects]]
:::[[Assessment]]  | Categories: [[:Category:Assessments|Assessments]] | [[:Category:Risk assessments|Risk assessments]]
:::[[Variable]] | Categories: [[:Category:Variables|Variables]]
:::[[Class]] | Categories: [[:Category:Classes|Classes]]
:::[[Drawing a causal diagram|Causal network]]


'''This chapter only contains pages that have more description than the title!
==Intarese framework==


'''Assessment (universal product)
:[[Intarese framework]] | Categories: [[:Category:Assessment methods|Assessment methods]] | [[:Category:Method|Method]] | [[:Category:Risk assessment methods|Risk assessment methods]] |
* Scope. What is the use purpose of an (impact) assessment? (To answer a policy information need) 3, 6, 12
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=21 Assessment tools] WP 1.1
*Definition
::Scientific context
**What is an impact assessment  
:::[[:Intarese:WP4.2 Technical Meeting|Domain description]]
**Different assessments: HIA, RA, IA... 4-5 (possibly own articles)
::::[[Template:Full chain approach|Full chain approach]]
:{{comment|#(number): |This part describes the process of performing an impact assessment. It goes not into details about the methodologies|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}} {{attack|#(number): |No, this is an overview.|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] 23:05, 15 January 2008 (EET)}}
:::::[[:Intarese:Emission data|Emissions]]
:::::[[:Intarese:Exposure modelling|Exposure]] {{highlight|suggested to be released in Intarese-wiki}}
:::::[[Exposure-response relationship|Exposure-response function]]
:::::[[Health impact assessment|Health impacts]] and valuation
::[[:Intarese:Policy assessment protocols (Intarese method)|Policy context]]
::[[Societal context of assessments|Societal context]]
::[[:Intarese:Help:Technical specifications of Intarese toolbox|Technical context]]
:[[Performing an assessment]] WP 1.1
::[[Issue framing]] | Tools: [[Issue framing tool]] WP 1.1
:::[[Scoping an assessment]] WP 1.1
::::[[Defining the purpose of an assessment]]
::::[[Defining the users of an assessment]]
:::[[Applying general information]] | Tools: [[Result database]]
:::[[Drawing a causal diagram]] WP 1.1 and 1.4
::[[Designing variables]] | Tools: [[Object design tool]] | [[Value judgement tool]] WP 1.4
::[[Executing variables]] and [[Executing analyses|analyses]] | Tools: [[Analysis tool]] | [[External model tool]] | [[Extracted model tool]] | Uncertainty tool WP 1.1. and WP 1.4
:::[[Variable transfer protocol]]
::[[Reporting an assessment]] | Tools: [[Reporting tool]] WP 1.1 and WP 4.2


'''Performing an impact assessment (process description:assessment framework) 10
==General methods==
*Scope: Purpose of making an impact assessment is to produce an assessment product. {{comment|#(number): |What would this be? A general purpose? something like policy consulting???|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
*Definition
**General methodology 10 ({{comment|#(number): |would be the same as the assessment framework? equals dimension "work environment" number 3.|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}})
**description of methodology used 11
*Result
**Inputs
**Procedure: Phases of an impact assessment 16
***Scoping an impact assessment 26
****Selecting indicators 50
***Applying general information
***Drawing a causal diagram 34 Links: [[Help:Causal diagram]] | Links to alternatives: Causal chain, impact pathway, DPSEEA, DPSIR
***: {{comment|#(number): |Discussing with some colleagues here at USTUTT they said it would be good to describe the differences and communalities between causal chain, impact pathway approach, DPSEEA, DPSIR. Where would this belong to?|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:06, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
***Designing variables
***Executing variables and analyses
***[[Reporting an assessment]]
**Outputs


'''Reporting an assessment (process description) 67
:Processes that cover or relate to several phases or steps {{reslink|Information processing methods by sub-processes}}
*Scope
::;[[Participating in assessments]] WP 1.1 and 1.4: The purpose is to allow participation in assessments in a way that ensures an effective distribution of tasks, successful aggregation of task outputs, and scientifically valid outcome.
*Definition: different approaches
:::;[[Mass collaboration]]: The purpose is the same as for participation in general, but allowing for '''open participation''' (see also [[Open Assessors' Network]]). | Tools: [[Collaborative workspace]] WP 1.4
*Result
:::;[[Organizing stakeholder involvement]] WP 1.1 and 1.4: The purpose is to collect information and value judgements about issues relevant for the assessment from stakeholders.
**Reporting uncertainties 70, 73 (incl. qualitative and quantitative uncertainties)
:::;Organizing assessment-policy collaboration: The purpose is the same as for [[organizing stakeholder involvement]] but limited to policy-makers. Does this include reporting to policy-makers?
:::;[[Dealing with disputes]]: The purpose is to deal with or resolve disputes about scientific or value-based issues that are relevant for the assessment.| Categories: [[:Category:Open discussions|Open discussions]] WP 1.1 and 1.4
::;[[:Intarese:Review of expert elicitation|Expert panel/elicitation]]: The purpose is to obtain quantitative data about an important variable in a situation where there are no measurements available. Experts of the area are interviewed and quantitative estimates are obtained from them. This also includes methods to evaluate the goodness of these elicited estimates.
::;[[:Intarese:Review of multiple-bias modelling|Multiple-bias modelling]]: The purpose is to correct the estimates based on general knowledge about biases that may or are likely to occur in the particular situation.
::;[[:Intarese:Help:GIS tool|GIS]] {{highlight|(suggested to be released in Intarese)}} and spatial issues (WP 4.2): The purpose is...?
::;[[Assessing uncertainty]]: The purpose is to quantitatively assess the uncertainties related to the variables of interest. | Tools: Uncertainty tools (Aguila, [http://www.intarese.org/kt/view.php?fDocumentId=92| MNP], [[:Intarese:Help:Sensitivity analysis|Sensitivity analysis]], [[:Intarese:Monte Carlo simulation|Monte Carlo simulation]], [[:Intarese:Bayesian analysis|Bayesian analysis]], [[:Intarese:Bayesian belief networks|Bayesian belief networks]] and [[:Intarese:Bayesian hierarchical modelling|Bayesian hierarchical modelling]]) {{disclink|Assessing uncertainty}}  What about the uncertainties of an assessment and error propagation?
:::;Estimating uncertainties WP 1.5: The purpose is to... what is the difference to assessing uncertainty? Maybe, assessing uncertainties is more like an introductory article and also includes qualitative analyses while estimating uncertainties will include only quantitative analyses?
:::;[[Uncertainty modeling in dose response|Propagating uncertainties]] WP 1.5 (but will WP 1.5 cover this at all?): The purpose is to quantitatively propagate the uncertainties (described as probability distributions) through the model in a way that the uncertainties of all parts of the model are coherently described.
:::;Reporting uncertainties WP 1.5
:::;[[:Intarese:Value of information|Value of information]] analysis WP 1.4: The purpose is to quantitatively estimate the value of further information (VOI) for decision-making. The VOI is always estimated for a particular set of decision options, using a defined outcome. It may be calculated for the whole decision situation (value of information) or a particular variable (value of partial information).
::;[[Collective structured learning]]: The purpose is to utilise existing information from previous assessments directly in new assessments and thus reduce costs of making assessments. This is done using two principles: the information is given freely available, and the information is structured in a uniform way. | Tools: [[Result database]] {{disclink|Tools in guidebook}} WP 1.4
::;[[Quality assurance and quality control]]: The purpose is to evaluate and ensure that the assessment fulfils the scientific criteria. An assessment is considered quality-controlled if all its parts are acceptably peer-reviewed and found out to fulfil the state-of-the art, or alternatively if a part does not fulfil the state-of-the-art, it is shown that the quality defect does not influence the conclusions.  | Categories: [[:Category:Pages of assessed quality|Pages of assessed quality]] WP 1.4


'''Stakeholder involvement (process description) 68
==Methods related to a particular step in the full chain==


Issue framing (process description:issue framing)
:Methods related to a particular step in the full chain | Categories: [[:Category:First level scoping objects|First level scoping objects]] {{disclink|Processes and products in guidebook}} {{reslink|Step-specific methods}} {{reslink|Information processing methods by sub-processes}}
:{{comment|#(number): |Where would be the boundaries to "process: assessment framework?"|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
* Scope:
**Purpose, questions 27
**Indicator selection 50
**Boundaries 29
**Scenarios 30-33
*Definition
**Variables


'''Emission modelling (process description) 36-39
===Environment / Pressures===
*Scope: purpose of emission modelling
*Definition: background
*Result:
**How to model 37
**Sectoral, spatial, and temporal resolution 38
**Uncertainties 39


'''Source-to-exposure modelling (process description) 40
:Activity modelling | Categories: [[:Category:Policy options|Policy options]] | [[:Category:Activities|Activities]]
*Scope: purpose
:Emission modelling | Categories: [[:Category:Pollutants|Pollutants]] | [[:Category:Emission releases|Emission releases]] | [[:Category:Emission sources|Emission sources]] | [[:Category:Emission factors and activities|Emission factors and activities]] WP 4.2 and 2.x {{highlight|(estimation of emissions into different media due to activities / driving forces)}}
*Definition: Different types 41
::including emission scenario building???
*See also: pointers to resource centre 42
:[[:Intarese:Exposure modelling|Source-to-exposure modelling]] / environmental fate modelling | Categories: [[:Category:Fate and transport|Fate and transport]] | [[:Category:Pathway media|Pathway media]] | [[:Category:Concentrations in the environment|Concentrations in the environment]] WP 1.2
*Direct approach: measure data ({{comment|#(number): |whatever. biomarkers, concentrations...|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}})
::Atmospheric environmental fate models /dispersion models {{highlight|(estimation of concentration in air due to releases into air)}}
*Uncertainties 43
::Multimedia environmental fate models {{highlight|(estimation of concentration in env. media due to releases into the media)}}
::[[:Intarese:Intake fraction method review|Intake fraction]] {{highlight|(relating intake to emissions)}}
::[[:Intarese:Source-apportionment method review|Source attribution]] {{highlight|(for a given concentration find the related pollutant sources)}}
:::[[:Intarese:D-37 Database of source apportionment and iF-modeling studies|Database of source attribution]] {{highlight|suggested to be released from Intarese-wiki}}


'''Exposure-response function modelling (process description)
===Human / Exposure-Response modelling===
*Scope 45
*Definition:
**Different types 46
**How can they be derived? 47-48
**Uncertainties 49


'''Risk characterisation (process description) 51
:[[:Intarese:Exposure modelling|Exposure modelling]] {{highlight| (a page suggested to be released in Intarese)}} | Categories:  | [[:Category:Exposures|Exposures]] | [[:Category:Population behaviour|Population behaviour]] WP 1.2 {{highlight|(estimation of the exposure of the population, disaggregated by pollutants/stressors, microenvironments, times, ...)}}
*Scope
::including exposure scenarios:
*Definition:  
:::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/view.php?fDocumentId=137 Exposure Evaluation Report]<br>
:{{comment|#(number): |maybe we could summarise "DALYs / QUALYs and monetary valuation under "aggregation". But I don't know how to do this at the moment.|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
:::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/view.php?fDocumentId=136 Source-to-exposure and Source Attribution Modelling Methodologies (D13 & D14)]
:::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=32 Exposure-source Apportionment and iF-Database (D37 Final, July 2007)]
:Internal dose modelling | Categories: [[:Category:Doses|Doses]] WP 1.3 and WP 2.2
::Pharmacokinetic modelling
::Biomonitoring
:[[Multistage model|Exposure-response function modelling]] | Categories: [[:Category:Health effects|Health effects]] | [[:Category:Exposure-response functions|Exposure-response functions]] WP 1.3 and 2.2 and 2.3
::Performing [[:Intarese:Review of meta-analysis|meta-analysis]] {{highlight|(deriving ERFs from several studies)}}
::[[:Intarese:Intarese:R86 Combining epidemiology and toxicology|Combining toxicological and epidemiological information]] {{highlight|(deriving better ERFs/DRFs)}}


'''Disability-adjusted life year (process description) 52
===Valuation / Aggregation===
*Scope
*Definition:
** How are they derived 54
**Alternatives 53


'''Monetary valuation (process description) 59
:Non-health impact estimation  | Categories: [[:Category:Non-health impacts|Non-health impacts]]  {{highlight|This is outside Intarese framework but should be mentioned}}
*Scope: Why do we need monetary values 60
:Health impact valuation | Categories: [[:Category:Costs and valuations|Costs and valuations]] WP 1.4
*Definition
::[[:Intarese:Appraisal Framework for Environment and Health|Risk appraisal framework]] {{highlight|consists of five panels that are briefly listed here but described in more detail elsewhere}} | Categories: [[:Category:Appraisal|Appraisal]] {{attack|#(number): |I think this belongs more to the Intarese framework than here as it encompasses much more than the step of aggregation and valuation|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:43, 21 May 2008 (EEST)}}
** Why do we choose monetary values and not utility points? 61
::: Policy impact valuation, e.g. Distance to (regulatory) target {{highlight|(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)}}
*Result
:::Health impact estimation
** How are monetary values derived 63
:::[[:Intarese:Monetary values for impacts to human health|Monetary impact estimation]]
:::Perception and acceptability impact estimation
:::Equity estimation
::Burden of disease measures  {{comment|#1: |Could we accumulate it like this?|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET)}}
:::[[:Intarese:Disability-adjusted life years|Disability-adjusted life years]] {{highlight|(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.)}}
:::[[:en:Quality-adjusted life years|Quality-adjusted life years]] {{highlight|(QALYs evaluate the quality of life in a certain health state, not disease)}}
::[[:Intarese:Monetization of impacts|Monetary valuation]] {{highlight|(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))
:::[[Discount|Discounting]]
:::Transferability of monetary values {{highlight|(making monetary values usable in another context (e.g. country))}}
:::Contingent valuation studies (CVS) {{highlight|(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???)}}
::::WTP {{highlight|(Preference of the population to avoid utility change; weighing, e.g. health effects)}}
::[[Value judgement tool|Including value judgements]] {{highlight|(being able to compare s.th. in including judgements about values; preferences)}}
:::[[:Intarese:Risk perception|Risk perception]] {{highlight|(is this a process or product?; ???)}}
:::Equity issues


'''Uncertainty assessment (process description)  39, 43, 49, 58, 65, 69
==Related frameworks and issues==
*Scope: Purpose of uncertainty assessment
*Definition: Different approaches
**Qualitative methods eg pedigree matrix 71
**Quantitative methods 72-73
**When to use which method? 73
*Result
**Uncertainty of the result: parameter uncertainty
**Uncertainty of the definition: model uncertainty
**Uncertainty of the scope: relevance


'''Uncertainty tools (process: tool) 76
:Related assessment frameworks
:{{attack|#(number): |This does not belong into the Guidebook but it is good to keep it in mind.|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
::Impact assessment
::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=33 Chemical risk assessment]
::[http://www.epa.gov/OSA/spc/2cumrisk.htm| Cumulative risk assessment (U.S.EPA CRA program)]
::[[:Intarese:CBA|Cost-benefit analysis]] {{reslink|Frameworks in guidebook}} {{highlight|(to overall compare different options, taking into account costs and benefits)}}
::[[:Intarese:CBA|Cost-effectiveness analysis]] {{highlight|(to compare different options that have the same aim; the effects are not compared in monetary values)}}
::Multi-attribute utility analysis
:Other important issues that are outside Intarese framework
::[[:Intarese:Climate change|Global warming]]  
::Accidents
::Ecosystems and biodiversity


'''Propagating uncertainties (process description) 72
==Other related documents==
*Scope
*Definition: approaches
**Monte Carlo 72
**Bayesian analysis 72


'''Impact assessment (product:assessment)  
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=135 Personal monitoring detailed review PM and NO<sub>2</sub>] (Detailed review of EXOPLIS and ULTRA for PM<sub>2.5</sub> and NO<sub>2</sub>)
:{{attack|#(number): |What should this be? Why should we have that? Scenarios etc. should be positioned under the process as the user should be explained how to build a scenario. |--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 17:26, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=123 WP3.3 protocol] (Agricultural land use, policy assessment protocol) and related [http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=124 list of key data sets]
* Scope:
::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=128 IC Pesticide Modelling Approach]
**Purpose, questions 27
::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=122 Pesticide evaluation report]
**Boundaries 29
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=18 Risk Characterisation Protocol] (D16 Final, May 2007)
**Scenarios 30-33
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=30 Risk Characterisation Methodology Report] (D17 Final, June 2007)
*Definition
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=14  Environmental Monitoring Review] (D19 Final, Sept 2007)
**Variables
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=28 Human Biomarker Review and Development Strategy] (D20 Final, June 2007)
**Analyses
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=22 Health Data Review and Surveillance Strategy] (D21 Final, Sept 2007)
*Result
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=15 Transport Assessment Protocol] (D22, September 2007)
**Results
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=23 D23 Housing Assessment Protocol] (D23 Final, May 2007)
**Conclusions
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=25  Water Assessment Protocol] (D25 Final, Sept 07)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=27 Wastes Assessment Protocol] (D27 Final, May 2007)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=16 Climate Assessment Protocol] (D28 Final, May 2007)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=19 User Analysis] for appropriate evaluation and sensible prioritisation of integrated assessment of health risks within the European public health approaches (D29, Sept 2007)
:[http://www.intarese.org/secure-area/key-readings.htm Key readings on integrated assessments]
 
=Pages available for release in Intarese=
 
:See [[:Intarese:Category:To be released]] for pages that should be moved to Opasnet and taken as part of the Guidance system.
:See [[:Intarese:Category:Release suggested]] for pages that should be moved to Opasnet but the content owner has not yet given the permission.

Latest revision as of 11:41, 24 October 2008

Parts of the Guidance system
Guidebook | Categories: Guidebook
Glossary | Categories: Glossary term
Warehouse | Categories: Assessments | Risk assessments | Variables | Classes
Resource centre | Categories: Resource centre

Table of Contents for the Guidebook

----#(number):: . Due to a decision in the PSG in Intarese, the TOC of the Intarese Guidebook will partly heavily be changed. Therefore, I will start a new page for the "official system TOC" here (Intarese wiki). It will be the basis for further discussions of WP 4.2 with SP 1. The Resource Centre Web page will be the basis for communication with SP 2. --Alexandra Kuhn 15:47, 20 May 2008 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

Guidebook main page

short description of what the Guidebook (old) (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

Introduction
Aim of the Guidebook WP 4.2
Scope of the Guidebook as stated in WP 4.2
General assessment framework | Categories: Assessment frameworks
Purpose and properties of good assessments WP 1.1
Societal context of assessments WP 1.1
Evaluating assessment performance WP 1.4
General assessment processes WP 1.1
Information processing R↻
Observing (actually belongs to basic science but is described here for completeness)
Information collection
Information synthesis
Budding new objects
Forming new classes
Assessment process management
Assessment process phases
Process development
Universal products | Categories: Universal object | Assessment objects
Assessment | Categories: Assessments | Risk assessments
Variable | Categories: Variables
Class | Categories: Classes
Causal network

Intarese framework

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

General methods

Processes that cover or relate to several phases or steps R↻
Participating in assessments WP 1.1 and 1.4
The purpose is to allow participation in assessments in a way that ensures an effective distribution of tasks, successful aggregation of task outputs, and scientifically valid outcome.
Mass collaboration
The purpose is the same as for participation in general, but allowing for open participation (see also Open Assessors' Network). | Tools: Collaborative workspace WP 1.4
Organizing stakeholder involvement WP 1.1 and 1.4
The purpose is to collect information and value judgements about issues relevant for the assessment from stakeholders.
Organizing assessment-policy collaboration
The purpose is the same as for organizing stakeholder involvement but limited to policy-makers. Does this include reporting to policy-makers?
Dealing with disputes
The purpose is to deal with or resolve disputes about scientific or value-based issues that are relevant for the assessment.| Categories: Open discussions WP 1.1 and 1.4
Expert panel/elicitation
The purpose is to obtain quantitative data about an important variable in a situation where there are no measurements available. Experts of the area are interviewed and quantitative estimates are obtained from them. This also includes methods to evaluate the goodness of these elicited estimates.
Multiple-bias modelling
The purpose is to correct the estimates based on general knowledge about biases that may or are likely to occur in the particular situation.
GIS (suggested to be released in Intarese) and spatial issues (WP 4.2)
The purpose is...?
Assessing uncertainty
The purpose is to quantitatively assess the uncertainties related to the variables of interest. | Tools: Uncertainty tools (Aguila, MNP, Sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, Bayesian analysis, Bayesian belief networks and Bayesian hierarchical modelling) D↷ What about the uncertainties of an assessment and error propagation?
Estimating uncertainties WP 1.5
The purpose is to... what is the difference to assessing uncertainty? Maybe, assessing uncertainties is more like an introductory article and also includes qualitative analyses while estimating uncertainties will include only quantitative analyses?
Propagating uncertainties WP 1.5 (but will WP 1.5 cover this at all?)
The purpose is to quantitatively propagate the uncertainties (described as probability distributions) through the model in a way that the uncertainties of all parts of the model are coherently described.
Reporting uncertainties WP 1.5
Value of information analysis WP 1.4
The purpose is to quantitatively estimate the value of further information (VOI) for decision-making. The VOI is always estimated for a particular set of decision options, using a defined outcome. It may be calculated for the whole decision situation (value of information) or a particular variable (value of partial information).
Collective structured learning
The purpose is to utilise existing information from previous assessments directly in new assessments and thus reduce costs of making assessments. This is done using two principles: the information is given freely available, and the information is structured in a uniform way. | Tools: Result database D↷ WP 1.4
Quality assurance and quality control
The purpose is to evaluate and ensure that the assessment fulfils the scientific criteria. An assessment is considered quality-controlled if all its parts are acceptably peer-reviewed and found out to fulfil the state-of-the art, or alternatively if a part does not fulfil the state-of-the-art, it is shown that the quality defect does not influence the conclusions. | Categories: Pages of assessed quality WP 1.4

Methods related to a particular step in the full chain

Methods related to a particular step in the full chain | Categories: First level scoping objects D↷ R↻ R↻

Environment / Pressures

Activity modelling | Categories: Policy options | Activities
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)
including emission scenario building???
Source-to-exposure modelling / environmental fate modelling | Categories: Fate and transport | Pathway media | Concentrations in the environment WP 1.2
Atmospheric environmental fate models /dispersion models (estimation of concentration in air due to releases into air)
Multimedia environmental fate models (estimation of concentration in env. media due to releases into the media)
Intake fraction (relating intake to emissions)
Source attribution (for a given concentration find the related pollutant sources)
Database of source attribution suggested to be released from Intarese-wiki

Human / Exposure-Response modelling

Exposure modelling (a page suggested to be released in Intarese) | Categories: | Exposures | Population behaviour WP 1.2 (estimation of the exposure of the population, disaggregated by pollutants/stressors, microenvironments, times, ...)
including exposure scenarios:
Exposure Evaluation Report
Source-to-exposure and Source Attribution Modelling Methodologies (D13 & D14)
Exposure-source Apportionment and iF-Database (D37 Final, July 2007)
Internal dose modelling | Categories: Doses WP 1.3 and WP 2.2
Pharmacokinetic modelling
Biomonitoring
Exposure-response function modelling | Categories: Health effects | Exposure-response functions WP 1.3 and 2.2 and 2.3
Performing meta-analysis (deriving ERFs from several studies)
Combining toxicological and epidemiological information (deriving better ERFs/DRFs)

Valuation / Aggregation

Non-health impact estimation | Categories: Non-health impacts This is outside Intarese framework but should be mentioned
Health impact valuation | Categories: Costs and valuations WP 1.4
Risk appraisal framework consists of five panels that are briefly listed here but described in more detail elsewhere | Categories: Appraisal ⇤--#(number):: . I think this belongs more to the Intarese framework than here as it encompasses much more than the step of aggregation and valuation --Alexandra Kuhn 18:43, 21 May 2008 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)
Policy impact valuation, e.g. 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)
Health impact estimation
Monetary impact estimation
Perception and acceptability impact estimation
Equity estimation
Burden of disease measures ----#1:: . Could we accumulate it like this? --Alexandra Kuhn 17:11, 7 March 2008 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)
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.)
Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs evaluate the quality of life in a certain health state, not disease)
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))
Discounting
Transferability of monetary values (making monetary values usable in another context (e.g. country))
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???)
WTP (Preference of the population to avoid utility change; weighing, e.g. health effects)
Including value judgements (being able to compare s.th. in including judgements about values; preferences)
Risk perception (is this a process or product?; ???)
Equity issues

Related frameworks and issues

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

Other related documents

Personal monitoring detailed review PM and NO2 (Detailed review of EXOPLIS and ULTRA for PM2.5 and NO2)
WP3.3 protocol (Agricultural land use, policy assessment protocol) and related list of key data sets
IC Pesticide Modelling Approach
Pesticide evaluation report
Risk Characterisation Protocol (D16 Final, May 2007)
Risk Characterisation Methodology Report (D17 Final, June 2007)
Environmental Monitoring Review (D19 Final, Sept 2007)
Human Biomarker Review and Development Strategy (D20 Final, June 2007)
Health Data Review and Surveillance Strategy (D21 Final, Sept 2007)
Transport Assessment Protocol (D22, September 2007)
D23 Housing Assessment Protocol (D23 Final, May 2007)
Water Assessment Protocol (D25 Final, Sept 07)
Wastes Assessment Protocol (D27 Final, May 2007)
Climate Assessment Protocol (D28 Final, May 2007)
User Analysis for appropriate evaluation and sensible prioritisation of integrated assessment of health risks within the European public health approaches (D29, Sept 2007)
Key readings on integrated assessments

Pages available for release in Intarese

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