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== Table of Contents for the Guidebook==
[[Category:Guidebook]]
 
{{guidebook}}
===Title list===
 
#Guidebook main page
#General assessment framework
##Purpose and properties of good assessments
##General processes
###Observing [actually belongs to basic science but is described here for completeness]
###Information collection
###Information synthesis
####Budding of new objects
####Forming new classes
###Process management
####Process phases
####Process description (development)
##[[Universal products]]
###[[Assessment]]
###[[Variable]]
###[[Class]]
###Causal network
#Intarese framework
##Scientific context
###Domain description
###Full chain
##Policy context
##Societal context
##Technical context
#[[Performing an assessment]]
##[[Issue framing]] | Tools: [[Issue framing tool]]
###[[Scoping an assessment]]
####[[Defining the purpose of an assessment]]
####[[Defining the users of an assessment]]
###[[Applying general information]] | Tools: [[Result database]]
###[[Drawing a causal diagram]]
##[[Designing variables]] | Tools: [[Object design tool]]
##[[Executing variables]] and [[Executing analyses|analyses]] | Tools: [[Analysis tool]] | [[External model tool]] | [[Extracted model tool]]
###[[Variable transfer protocol]]
##[[Reporting an assessment]] | Tools: [[Reporting tool]]
#Methods related to a particular step in the causal chain {{disclink|Processes and products in guidebook}}
##Emission modelling
##Exposure modelling
###Source-to-exposure modelling
####Atmospheric models
####Aquatic models
####Multimedia models
###Source apportionment
###Intake fraction
##Exposure-response function modelling
###Performing meta-analysis
###Combining toxicological and epidemiological information
##Risk characterisation
###Risk appraisal method
####Distance to (regulatory) target
####Impact estimation
####Monetary estimation
####Risk perception and acceptability
####Equity estimation
###Disability-adjusted life year
###Quality-adjusted life year
###Monetary valuation
###Discounting
###Risk perception
###Value judgement
###Equity issues
#Processes that are useful or necessary and cover several phases or steps
##Open participation in assessment
##Stakeholder involvement
## Expert panel / elicitation
## Multiple-bias modelling
## GIS and spatial issues
##Uncertainty assessment
###Estimating uncertainties
###Propagating uncertainties
###Value-of-information analysis
###Uncertainty tools (process: tool)
## Collective structured learning | Tools: [[Result database]] {{disclink|Tools in guidebook}}
## [[Mass collaboration]] | Tools:  [[Collaborative workspace]]
## [[Dealing with disputes]]
#Introduction to important topics in the Resource Centre
##Health impacts
##Emissions
##Exposures
##Exposure-response function
##Impacts
#Other assessment frameworks
##Impact assessment
##Cost-benefit analysis {{disclink|Frameworks in guidebook}}
##Cost-effectiveness analysis
##Multi-attribute utility analysis
#Important issues that are outside (health) impact assessment
##Global warming 78
##Accidents 79
##Ecosystems and biodiversity 80
 
===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.
 
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|+In the Guidebook
|Parts of the Guidance system
!The location in Intarese (links redirect to the current page)
: [[Guidebook]] | Categories: [[:Category:Guidebook|Guidebook]]
!Where it is now
: [[Glossary]] | Categories: [[:Category:Glossary term|Glossary term]]
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: [[Warehouse]] | Categories: [[:Category:Assessments|Assessments]] | [[:Category:Risk assessments|Risk assessments]] | [[:Category:Variables|Variables]] | [[:Category:Classes|Classes]]
| [[Intarese:Help:Analysis tool]]||Tool:Analysis tool
: [[Resource centre]] | Categories: [[:Category:Resource centre|Resource centre]]
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| [[Intarese:Help:Applying general information]] ||Method:Applying general information
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| [[Intarese:Help:Class]] ||Universal products:Class
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| [[Intarese:Help:Collaborative workspace]] ||Tool:Collaborative workspace
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| [[Intarese:Help:Designing variables]]|| Method:Designing variables
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| [[Intarese:Help:Dispute]]|| Method:Dealing with disputes
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| [[Intarese:Help:Drawing a causal diagram]]|| Method:Drawing a causal diagram
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| [[Intarese:Help:Executing variables]]|| Method:Executing variables
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| [[Intarese:Help:External model]]|| Tool:External model
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| [[Intarese:Help:Extracted model]]|| Tool:Extracted model
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| [[Intarese:Help:Issue framing tool]]|| Tool:Issue framing tool
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| [[Intarese:Help:Mass collaboration]]|| Method:Mass collaboration
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| [[Intarese:Help:Model extractor]]|| Tool:Extracted model tool
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| [[Intarese:Help:Object design tool]]|| Tool:Object design tool
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| [[Intarese:Help:Purpose of a risk assessment]]|| Method:Defining the purpose of an assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:Reporting a risk assessment]]|| Method:Reporting an assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:Reporting tool]]|| Tool:Reporting tool
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| [[Help:Result database]]|| Tool:Result database
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| [[Intarese:Help:Risk assessment structure]]|| Universal product:Assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:Scoping a risk assessment]]|| Method:Scoping an assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:The phases of a risk assessment]]|| Method:Performing an assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:Universal information structure for risk assessment products]]|| Theoretical foundation:Universal products
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| [[Intarese:Help:Users of the pyrkilo method]]|| Method:Defining the users of an assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:Variable]]|| Universal products:Variable
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| [[Intarese:Help:Variable transfer protocol]] || Method:Variable transfer protocol
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= Table of Contents for the Guidebook=
{{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)}}


{| {{prettytable}}
==Guidebook main page==
|+In other parts of the Guidance system
: 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
!The location in Intarese (links redirect to the current page)
: link to [[Special:Specialpages|special pages]] ("menue" pages / interactive guidance) for the different user groups, e.g. policy makers, assessors, public
!Where it is now
: link to the [[Help:Contents|help]]
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: link to the [[Glossary|glossary]]
| [[Intarese:Help:Causality]] ||Glossary:Causality
: ...
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| [[Intarese:Help:Decision variable]]|| Glossary:Decision variable
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| [[Intarese:Help:Value judgement]]|| Glossary:Value judgement
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==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]]


{| {{prettytable}}
==Intarese framework==
|+The new location not yet clear
!The current location in Intarese
!Where it should go
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| [[Intarese:Help:Contributing to a discussion]]|| Method:Contributing to a discussion
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| [[Intarese:Help:Copyright issues]]|| Method:Dealing with copyright issues
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| [[Intarese:Help:Data gateway]]|| Tool:Data gateway
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| [[Intarese:Help:Encyclopedia on environmental health]]|| Glossary:Encyclopedia on environmental health
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| [[Intarese:Help:General properties of good risk assessments]]|| Theoretical foundation:Purpose and properties of good assessments
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| [[Intarese:Help:Guidebook on risk assessment]]|| Glossary:Guidebook
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| [[Intarese:Help:Integrated resource platform]]|| Glossary:Resource platform
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| [[Intarese:Help:Managing stakeholder involvement]]|| Method:Managing stakeholder information
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| [[Intarese:Help:Open participation in risk assessment]]|| Method:Open participation
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| [[Intarese:Help:Open risk assessment (toolbox)]]|| Glossary:Open assessment
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| [[Intarese:Help:Performance]]|| Method:Evaluating performance? Or: General properties of good assessments?
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| [[Intarese:Help:Plausibility tests]]|| Glossary:Plausibility tests Or:Product?
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| [[Intarese:Help:Pyrkilo method (summary)]]|| Glossary:Pyrkilo method
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| [[Intarese:Help:Risk assessment process]]|| Theoretical foundation:General processes
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| [[Intarese:Help:Societal role of risk assessment]]|| Societal context of assessments
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| [[Intarese:Help:Uncertainty]]|| Method:Assessing uncertainty
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| [[Intarese:Help:Variable definition]]|| Method:Defining a variable
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===Page contents in more detail===
:[[Intarese framework]] | Categories: [[:Category:Assessment methods|Assessment methods]] | [[:Category:Method|Method]] | [[:Category:Risk assessment methods|Risk assessment methods]] |
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=21 Assessment tools] WP 1.1
::Scientific context
:::[[:Intarese:WP4.2 Technical Meeting|Domain description]]
::::[[Template:Full chain approach|Full chain approach]]
:::::[[: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


'''This chapter only contains pages that have more description than the title!
==General methods==


'''Assessment (universal product)  
:Processes that cover or relate to several phases or steps {{reslink|Information processing methods by sub-processes}}
* Scope. What is the use purpose of an (impact) assessment? (To answer a policy information need) 3, 6, 12
::;[[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
:::;[[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
**What is an impact assessment  
:::;[[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.
**Different assessments: HIA, RA, IA... 4-5 (possibly own articles)
:::;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?
:{{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)}}
:::;[[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


'''Performing an impact assessment (process description:assessment framework) 10
==Methods related to a particular step in the full chain==
*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)}}
***: {{comment|#(number): |Perhaps these descriptions should be included in the links to the different alternatives? Ex give the differences and communalities between causal diagram and impact pathway in the linked section of impact pathway and so on?|--[[User:Kb|Kb]] 13:43, 18 January 2008 (EET)}}
***Designing variables
***Executing variables and analyses
***[[Reporting an assessment]]
**Outputs


'''Reporting an assessment (process description) 67
: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}}
*Scope
*Definition: different approaches
*Result
**Reporting uncertainties 70, 73 (incl. qualitative and quantitative uncertainties)


'''Stakeholder involvement (process description) 68
===Environment / Pressures===


Issue framing (process description:issue framing)
:Activity modelling | Categories: [[:Category:Policy options|Policy options]] | [[:Category:Activities|Activities]]
:{{comment|#(number): |Where would be the boundaries to "process: assessment framework?"|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}}
: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)}}
* Scope:
::including emission scenario building???
**Purpose, questions 27
:[[: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
**Indicator selection 50
::Atmospheric environmental fate models /dispersion models {{highlight|(estimation of concentration in air due to releases into air)}}
**Boundaries 29
::Multimedia environmental fate models {{highlight|(estimation of concentration in env. media due to releases into the media)}}
**Scenarios 30-33
::[[:Intarese:Intake fraction method review|Intake fraction]] {{highlight|(relating intake to emissions)}}
*Definition
::[[:Intarese:Source-apportionment method review|Source attribution]] {{highlight|(for a given concentration find the related pollutant sources)}}
**Variables
:::[[:Intarese:D-37 Database of source apportionment and iF-modeling studies|Database of source attribution]] {{highlight|suggested to be released from Intarese-wiki}}


'''Emission modelling (process description) 36-39
===Human / Exposure-Response modelling===
*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
:[[: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: purpose
::including exposure scenarios:
*Definition: Different types 41
:::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/view.php?fDocumentId=137 Exposure Evaluation Report]<br>
*See also: pointers to resource centre 42
:::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/view.php?fDocumentId=136 Source-to-exposure and Source Attribution Modelling Methodologies (D13 & D14)]
*Direct approach: measure data ({{comment|#(number): |whatever. biomarkers, concentrations...|--[[User:Alexandra Kuhn|Alexandra Kuhn]] 18:02, 14 January 2008 (EET)}})
:::[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)]
*Uncertainties 43
: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)}}


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


'''Risk characterisation (process description) 51
:Non-health impact estimation  | Categories: [[:Category:Non-health impacts|Non-health impacts]]  {{highlight|This is outside Intarese framework but should be mentioned}}
*Scope
: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)}}
:{{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)}}
::: 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)}}
:::Health impact estimation
:::[[: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


'''Disability-adjusted life year (process description) 52
==Related frameworks and issues==
*Scope
*Definition:
** How are they derived 54
**Alternatives 53


'''Monetary valuation (process description) 59
:Related assessment frameworks
*Scope: Why do we need monetary values 60
::Impact assessment
*Definition
::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=33 Chemical risk assessment]
** Why do we choose monetary values and not utility points? 61
::[http://www.epa.gov/OSA/spc/2cumrisk.htm| Cumulative risk assessment (U.S.EPA CRA program)]
*Result
::[[:Intarese:CBA|Cost-benefit analysis]] {{reslink|Frameworks in guidebook}} {{highlight|(to overall compare different options, taking into account costs and benefits)}}
** How are monetary values derived 63
::[[: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


'''Uncertainty assessment (process description)  39, 43, 49, 58, 65, 69
==Other related documents==
*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
:[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): |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)}}
:[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]
::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=128 IC Pesticide Modelling Approach]
::[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=122 Pesticide evaluation report]
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=18 Risk Characterisation Protocol] (D16 Final, May 2007)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=30 Risk Characterisation Methodology Report] (D17 Final, June 2007)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=14  Environmental Monitoring Review] (D19 Final, Sept 2007)
:[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)
:[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)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=15 Transport Assessment Protocol] (D22, September 2007)
:[http://www.intarese.org/kt/action.php?kt_path_info=ktcore.actions.document.view&fDocumentId=23 D23 Housing Assessment Protocol] (D23 Final, May 2007)
:[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]


'''Propagating uncertainties (process description) 72
=Pages available for release in Intarese=
*Scope
*Definition: approaches
**Monte Carlo 72
**Bayesian analysis 72


'''Impact assessment (product:assessment)
:See [[:Intarese:Category:To be released]] for pages that should be moved to Opasnet and taken as part of the Guidance system.
:{{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)}}
:See [[:Intarese:Category:Release suggested]] for pages that should be moved to Opasnet but the content owner has not yet given the permission.
* Scope:
**Purpose, questions 27
**Boundaries 29
**Scenarios 30-33
*Definition
**Variables
**Analyses
*Result
**Results
**Conclusions

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

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