User:Pankouis

Decision Analysis and Risk Management 2015

Homework 1

                                                                 Homework 1                                                Panayiotis Kouis

Question: What is Shared Understanding? Answer: It is the ultimate goal of open policy practice. Shared understanding is the state where all participants in an open assessment (stakeholders, decision makers, experts, civil servants, general public) agree regarding the final objectives, the decision alternatives evaluated, which evidence are available, what are the different opinions and disagreements and finally all participants should understand why a particular decision option was selected. All this process should be written down and be available for all the participants.

Question: What parts does open policy consists of? Answer: Open policy consists of: • Shared understanding • Execution of decision support, follows the principles of: Intentionality (Description of the objectives and decision options under consideration by the decision maker) Shared information objects (common and open workplace characterized by systematic structure) Causality (description of the causal relationship between decision and outcome) Critique (Information presented should be criticized with primary goal to exclude ideas that do not stand for scientific criticism. Openness (anyone interested can participate) Reuse (Use of formats that allow use of information in future projects) • Evaluation and management of decision support and decision making Use of quality criteria for all the phases of decision support such as quality of content, applicability of the provided information, clear understanding regarding the setting of the assessment(e.g. for what impacts, for whom it is performed), clear definition of the levels of “openness” and levels of “interaction” • Co-creation skills and facilitation The rate limiting factor of a successful open policy practice. Co- creation skills are needed to manage the decision making process to produce good decisions and eventually the desired outcomes. These important skills can be categorized under: Encouragement Synthesis Open Data Modeling

Question: What is the main purpose of environmental health assessment? Answer: Environmental Health Assessment is the process through which the assessor can inform decision making upon societally relevant issues related to environment and health and their interaction in order to influence decision making relating to public or private policy actions and their intended outcomes.

←--#: . OK. --Jouni (talk) 10:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)

----#: . You might want to use * and : to create bullet lists and indentation, respectively. Also, use two enters to make a new paragraph (one enter is treated as a space). --Jouni (talk) 10:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

Thanks for the tips. I will keep this in mind.

Homework 4

Skope

Investigate the effect of introducing natural gas as primary fuel in Helsinki power plants

Question

What are the potential health effects relating to air pollution in Helsinki resulting from a change in the primary fuel source used at the local power plants.

Intended Use

The city of Helsinki and Government of Finland (Decision Makers)

----#: . OK, these are the users. How are they going to use the information? --Jouni (talk) 16:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

Participants

• Research Personnel (THL)
• Students (THL)
• Helsinki Municipality
• Ministry of Energy, Finland
• Ministry of Health, Finland

Timing

⇤--#: . Categories such as Category:Question and Category:Skope are not useful, because all pages in Opasnet have a question and all assessments have a scope. Categories should be something that distinguish a group of pages from other pages. I removed those two categories as unnecessary. --Jouni (talk) 16:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)

←--#: . The good news is, now you know how to create those pages and categorise pages. --Jouni (talk) 16:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)

----#: . The file you uploaded (File:Arsenic in town A JSE with fish indexing.ana) is probably a method page because it contains a generic arsenic model. You could add the page type. See method. --Jouni (talk) 16:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)