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Homework 1

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

The main purpose is to improve deliberate plans of actions that guide decisions aiming for desired outcomes.

7. What is impact assessment?

In impact assessment the purpose is to evaluate the impact, for example what kind of impacts some environmental thing has. There are also directives that control how the impact assessment is done, for example some EU-directives. --# : Or what some "thing" has on environment or something else. In principle, impact assessment is any kind of assessment that considers any impacts, but it is true that particularly environmental impact assessment is quite strictly controlled by legislation in most parts of the world. For example, health impact assessment is much less regulated, although e.g. WHO has tried to formulate the general practice guidelines for HIA. --Mikko Pohjola 10:51, 28 January 2013 (EET)

9. What are the dimensions of openness?

Scope of participation, access to information, timing of openness, scope of contribution, impact of contribution.

←# : good brief and clear answers. --Mikko Pohjola 10:51, 28 January 2013 (EET)

Homework 2

  • How effective is the supervising in Opasnet, for example if someone writes some wrong information in purpose and just want to harm the website, how long it takes that someone In Opasnet notice that?

Homework 3. feat. Kasperi Juntunen

http://en.opasnet.org/w/User:Kasperi_Juntunen

Homework 4. feat Kasperi Juntunen

⇤# : Add here, which climate program/strategy you are considering below. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

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

RCI is a project is trying to make transition to sustainability and the main point is to reduce CO2 emissions. Another aim of this project is to make a broad public support and commitment for their goal.

--# : How does the project try to make the transition and CO2 emission reduction? What does it want to change in order to make the main point come to reality? --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

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

On the long period everyone benefits if CO2 emissions are reduced. Society comes cleaner and the impacts to nature are not so harmful anymore.

⇤# : Surely CO2 emission reduction is a good thing. But think of how the ways of reducing CO2 emissions may benefit someone. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

--# : Also note that CO2 emission reduction does not necessarily mean cleaner air and cleaner environment in general. Consider e.g. biomass burning for energy. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

What are the actions that are needed/intended to take in order to progress towards the aims/goals? In order to reduce CO2 economical actions and investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy, adaption, carbon capture, re-using and storage must be done. They also inform people and encourage them to take action.

⇤# : What economical actions and investments to what? What should be done with energy efficiency, renewable energy etc.? Which kinds of actions are encouraged? This list looks more like a breakdown of the aims. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

Who are those that actually realize these actions?

Policy makers, government, researchers and environment organizations. Also citizens can make difference by changing their habits of energy consumption.

⇤# : Do e.g. policy makers and researchers really make building renovations for better energy efficiency? They can have roles in preparing strategies or developing policies to promote desired actions, but the basic-level actions do usually take place by someone else. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

←# : Good point regarding the citizens roles. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

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

Needed decisions are that policy makers should encourage or force companies and citizens to programs and actions that advance this project and the positive impacts to nature and society.

--# : Try to get a bit better grip of the actions related to the project and then think who are actually those involved in doing them and making decisions that enable them. Maybe pick one or two specific actions as examples look into them in more detail. E.g. what kinds actions, actors, decisions and decision makers relate to increasing the use of light traffic within the city. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

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

At first, reducing CO2 emissions means that also fine particle emissions are reduced so health impacts on fine particles are reduced, like cardiology and heart disease and respitory organ diseases. If these actions are made impacts to nature are reduced. The people who face these health impacts are the people and nature of Rotterdam. In order to make these decisions there must be done investments and actions which cost to economy but in long-term actions will end up to win-win results with nature, citizens and society.

⇤# : It is possible that CO2 emissions and fine particle exposures go down hand in hand, but not at all necessarily so. In addition, the impacts do not necessarily distribute evenly to all parts of the population. Also, consider if all the increased costs caused by some actions are really paid off and overcompensated over time. No negative impacts in any regard to anyone ever? --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

Formulate a plausible and meaningful specific assessment question that takes account of (some of) the aspects considered in above questions.

What are the actions which reduces CO2 emissions and what impacts these actions have?

--# : Makes sense, but remains a bit vague. Doesn't the project already list actions that, at least should, reduce CO2 emissions? If sticking to those, it would indeed be useful to assess e.g the health impacts related to these actions and see whether the expected win-win is well-founded in different cases. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

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.

Our answers do represent shared understanding by including effects to nature, society and economy and health.

--# : Shared understanding between who? Who are those that would agree that all relevant points are duly taken into account, decision maker aims and decision criteria are explicitly described etc. nature, society, economy, and health do relate to each other, but a shared understanding about their relationships is a more tricky question. --Mikko Pohjola 23:49, 31 January 2013 (EET)

Homework 5 feat. Kasperi Juntunen

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

  • Who are the relevant participants of the assessment?

Policy makers, companies and industry, citizens and environment organizations.⇤# : As you are working with a specific climate program, you probably could name the participants more precisely. E.g. which environmental organizations are in question? --Marjo 13:30, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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

Policy makers should think about society economy by thinking impact of CO 2 emission reduction to health care cost and costs of impacts to nature. In the end policy makers decides which actions are done after assessment. Companies and industry thinks about their production and costs of investments. Also the efficiency of actions can be evaluated by industry. Citizens can give their opinion but it is not so relevant. Experts of bio-energy and rewevable energy are also needed. --# : Good overall considerations. Based on this, you could additionally express the roles per participant in short form. For example, city council may have roles of decision maker and information source; researchers of institute x may have a role of experts in bioenergy etc.. By the way, why do you think that the opinion of citizens is not so relevant? --Marjo 13:30, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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

Policy makers have knowledge about legislation, human health and its costs. Industry and companies have knowledge about production, how it can be developed and how efficiency actions are. --# : Do policy makers have enough knowledge on human health? --Marjo 13:30, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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

The aim is to reduce CO 2 emission. In the assessment they also have to think about costs of actions and investments. Also ways of informing people have to think so energy efficiency of society could be improved.⇤# : You should specify the aims and needs per participant. For example: "City administration of Rotterdam has an aim of xx % reduction in city´s GHG emissions." --Marjo 13:30, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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?

They should share their knowledge to each others so they can think about all outcomes of actions. ←# : Good. --Marjo 13:32, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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

There should be supervisors who ensure information which is included to assessment is relevant.

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

By supervisors like in previous question.

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

By making models of different actions, by informing people about energy saving, by comparing different investment in society and industry and by estimating their outcomes. They need experts for that who can consider all these issues together.←# : Good points. --Marjo 13:32, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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

Reducing CO 2 emission is always in long-term win-win situation. It needs investments and changes but they will pay themselves back. 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
Decisions(-)
ObsDecisionmakerDecisionOptionVariableCellChangeUnitAmountDescription
1IndustryCleaning.policicyReduce emissionsexposureYear:2020Multiply-0.5
2IndustryInvestmentReduce emissionstraining.costsYear:2020;Expenditure:Cleaning equipment useAdd€50000
3IndustryDeveloping the processReduce emissionstraining.costsYear:2020;Expenditure:More efficient productionAdd€50000-100000
4City of RotterdamEdification campaing to citizensEnergy savingEnergy consumptionYear:2020Multiply-1.2
5City of RotterdamImproving use of Bio-energy and renewable energyReducing CO 2 emissionsInvestmentYear:2020;Expenditure:New technologyAdd€500000
6City of RotterdamCarbon storageGrowing forestCarbon emissions storagedYear:2020Multiply-1.1
7Citizens of RotterdamEnergy savingReducing energy consumption--Add€-
  • ⇤# : You could describe the variables a bit more precisely. For example, "exposure" to what? If the explanation is too long to be included into table, put it below it. --Marjo 17:42, 5 February 2013 (EET)
  • --# : Otherwise looks quite good. Jouni may give further comments. --Marjo 17:42, 5 February 2013 (EET)
  • Endpoints table
You have error(s) in your data:

You have invalid number of data cells in row 7
Endpoints(-)
ObsStakeholderVariableCellModelResultDescription
1City of RotterdamEmissionsYear:2012Weighted sum1000
2City of RotterdamEmissions Year:2020Weighted sum800
3City of RotterdamEmissions;InvestmentYear:2020Weighted sum1
4City of RotterdamEmissions:Carbon storageYear:2012Weighted sum1000
5City of Rotterdam Emissions:Carbon storage Year:2020Weighted sum800
6Industry Emissions:Investment Year:2020Weighted sum600
7
8CitizensEmissionsYear:2012Weighted sum1000
9CitizensEmissions:Energy consumptionYear:2020Weighted sum900
10City of RotterdamCampaing costsYear:2020Weighted sum1

⇤# : What do you mean with "Emissions;Investment"? Again the variables should be described a bit more precisely. --Marjo 17:42, 5 February 2013 (EET)

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