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DARM HOME WORK 1

1.What is the main purpose of environmental health assessment?

To improve delibrate plan of actions that guide decisions aiming for desired outcomes.

2.What is pragmatism?

Applying scientific knowledge and means for supporting the practical needs of decision making upon socially relevant issues related to environment and health. ----#: . Yes, this is actually the interpretation of pragmatism in the context of environmental health assessment/policy. More generally, pragmatism means that knowledge and the use of knowledge can not be separated. --Mikko Pohjola 10:14, 28 January 2013 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

5.What are the main differences between open assessment and most other assessment approaches?

It considers assessment as open collaborative process of creating shared knowledge and understanding.

←--#: . Nice clear and brief answers. --Mikko Pohjola 10:14, 28 January 2013 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)

Homework 4

Integrated Climate Protection and Energy Strategy for Ludwigsburg

Questions:

• What are the aims/goals of the strategy/program, i.e. what are the desired impacts and outcomes striven for?

Landmark projects,optimisation of energy,independent and decentralised energy supply, energy savings in transport,In general, the aim is to start today using the available capital and manpower to reduce the current energy demand and increase the range of renewable energy in the future. It is about investing in a climate compatible future.

• • Who are those that benefit if the aims/goals of the strategy/program are reached?

The community.

How? It reduces the negative health impacts on the citizens.

• What are the actions that are needed/intended to take in order to progress towards the aims/goals?

Status Quo Expert and Public Participation Measures Integrated Scenario Analysis Action Plan Continuation: Monitoring, Evaluation and Follow-up

• • Who are those that actually realize these actions?

• What are the decisions that are needed to make in order to enable/promote the actions?

Intensive public relations and counselling services ,Energy optimisation,Landmark projects,Energy savings in transport,Renewable energy carriers, energy services and innovative energy technologies,

• • Who are the decision makers?

Experts from the city(administration,utilities,expert panel) and community

• What direct or indirect health impacts, positive or negative, these decisions and actions (may) have?

• • Where and how do these impacts take place, who are those that face these health impacts in practice?The community,the citizens,

• • Are the health impacts big or small in relation to other impacts (e.g. economical, social, climate, other environmental, ...)?

• • Do the intended policies result in win-win, win-lose, lose-win, or lose-lose situations with regard to health and other impacts? win-lose.

• Formulate a plausible and meaningful specific assessment question that takes account of (some of) the aspects considered in above questions.what are the health impacts of energy related CO2.
• 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.

Homework 5

Homework 5, part A: Questions about identifying roles and participation:

• Who are the relevant participants of the assessment?

important stakeholders in Ludwigsburg, as well as the City administration and the City utilities of Ludwigsburg, and the climate protection and energy agency of Baden-Württemberg,the expert participation and the citizens.

• What roles the different participants (may) take in the assessment?

the city councils participated at the Round Table and the Energy Futures Conference.

Expert The work progress and, in particular, the development and assessment of the and measures and steps towards implementation of climate protection, sustainable public energy use, security of supply, and regional value added in Ludwigsburg were participation developed as a discursive process together with experts from the city (administration, utilities, expert panel) and the community. LEA developed an appropriate retrofit strategy specific to the building typology in Ludwigsburg The task of the Ludwigsburg stakeholders and the City of Ludwigsburg is to support and accelerate this process,

• What kind of relevant knowledge they (may) have regarding the assessment?

The citizens have knowledge on the impacts ,the expert have knowledge on technical measures,City administration provides financial support for the budget.

• What needs and aims do they represent in the assessment?

, the aim is to start today using the available capital and manpower to reduce the current energy demand and increase the range of renewable energy in the future. It is about investing in a climate compatible future.

Homework 5, part B: Consider also the following questions about facilitating collaboration:

• How could the relevant participants be involved in the assessment in an effective way?

Collaboration and discussion of contributions in decision making.

• How can the quality of an assessment be assured if anyone can participate?

It should be guided by the specific S.M.A.R.T objectives.

• How can you prevent malevolent contributions where the purpose is to vandalise the process?

By formulating and implementing policies to guide the process.

• How can you make the outcome converge to a conclusion, because all issues are uncertain and controversial?

All contributions must be given equal attention.

• How can you ensure that the outcomes are useful for the users?

By effective implentation,monitoring of the outcome.

Homework 5, part C: Prepare following tables from the climate programme of your selection. Instructions for table structures can be found at Training assessment.

• Decisions table
• Endpoints table