Talk:Global programme for environmental health and risk analysis

background material added

Possible background material for the programme:

1) Wilson & Crouch (2001): Benefit-risk analysis [1]

• Introduction: Perspective on risk
• Methods of risk calculation and estimation
• Uncertainty and variability
• Perception of risks
• Formal comparison of risk and benefit
• Risk management: managing and reducing risks
• Lists of risks

2) Morgan & Henrion (1990): Uncertainty [2]

• An overview of quantitative policy analysis
• The nature and sources of uncertainty'
• Probability distributions and statistical estimation
• Human judgement about and with uncertainty
• Performing probability assessment
• The propagation and analysis of uncertainty
• The graphic communication of uncertainty
• Analytica: a software tool for uncertainty analysis and model communication
• Large and complex models
• The value of knowing how little you know

3) Intarese Guidebook

• 1.1 Guidebook main page
• 1.2 General assessment framework
• 1.3 Intarese framework
• 1.4 General methods
• 1.5 Methods related to a particular step in the full chain
  • 1.5.1 Environment
  • 1.5.2 Human
  • 1.5.3 Valuation
• 1.6 Related frameworks and issues