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Revision as of 07:07, 4 May 2008
Health impact assessment (HIA) on city-level energy production and consumption with climate change boundaries takes a wide perspective over environmental issues that can be dealt with on a city level. It studies many of the contemporary ideas, plans, and pieces of legislation in an integrated and systematic way. It tries to find hidden caveats, expose policies that are based on popular trends rather than science, and assess the impacts of new innovative solutions.
Contents
Scope
Purpose
The purpose is to assess the health impacts of energy production and consumption (including energy within products) in a city. The climate change and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are taken as a boundary condition. Hence, the climate change impacts are not on the focus, but rather the impacts of climate change abatement measures that are put in action in the city. Individual and societal interests and decisions, and their interplay is specifically on focus. Situations where individual and societal values are in conflict are indentified and examined.
Boundaries
- Spatial: One urban area. Helsinki Metropolitan Area (capital region; Helsinki for short) is used as the practical example.
- Temporal: Current situation - 20 years in the future.
- Health impacts: All: mortality and morbidity. DALYs are used as the summary measure.
- Population: The whole population in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area is considered as the active population (making societal and individual decisions). However, health impacts are considered anywhere in the world both downstream (impacts of pollutants from Helsinki) and upstream (health impacts of the production of products consumed in Helsinki).
Scenarios
- Biofuels are used in traffic according to the EU legislation (10 % of consumed energy is biofuels by 2020?)
- The biofuel is produced from a) palm oil or b) domestic sources such as waste or forest industry side products.
- Composite traffic[1] is applied in personal transport.
- One nuclear energy unit is built in Finland, and the heat load is utilised in the district heating of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
- For remote areas without district heating, alternative sources of heat are considered: a) domestic wood or oil combustion, b) small-scale district heating with wood or oil for the nearby community (2000-10000 inhabitants), c) electricity. (see Bioher).
- Energy uptake is increased from the exhaust air from buildings. (see Claih).
Intended users
- City-level policy-makers in all sectors in Helsinki and everywhere.
- International policy-makers related to climate change.
- General public.
Participants
- The Risk research group from KTL.
- The Open Assessors' Network.
- Anyone interested. This is an open assessment.
Definition
Decision variables
Indicator variables
Other variables
Indices
Analyses
Result
Results
Conclusions
See also
- Nugget:Carbon pie approach
- Bioenergy in Finland: effects on health and climate change
- Variable:Assessment:Catastrophic non-linear impacts of climate change
- Risk assessment on Hämeenkyrö municipal solid waste incinerator
References
- ↑ Tuomisto JT, Tainio M: BMC Public Health (2005) 5:123
