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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
     
FROM RISK ASSESSMENT TO RISK RESPONSE
Communicating Complex Risks To Concerned Stakeholders
2 - 4 April 2008, Athens, Greece
An interdisciplinary workshop for researchers, risk assessors and policy-makers
The programme includes a field trip to Lavrion which gives participants an opportunity to investigate a case study on the assessment, perception and communication of risks of lead and arsenic poisoning of residents by exposure to ancient and recent mining and smelting wastes.
Day 2 begins with two plenary sessions but also includes four parallel breakout sessions introduced through real-life case studies thus permitting more detailed discussions between experts in the specific areas.
The workshop concludes with further plenary sessions and a plenary discussion on Day 3.
Preleminary Programme
Day 1 (2nd April 2008) Field Trip to Lavrion (54 km SE of Athens)
Leaders: EuroGeol Alecos Demetriades (IGME), Dr. Adonis Photiades (IGME) and Prof. Const. Panagopoulos (NTUA)
The following documents give some information on the Lavrion case study:
(1) Risk perception and communication in Lavrion
(2) Spatially resolved hazard and exposure assessment in Lavrion
Day 2 (3rd April 2008) Workshop
8-50 – 9.00 |
Welcome |
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Session 1 - Chair: Mike Ramsey |
9.00 – 9.25 |
Risk assessment and risk communication in the context of complexity David Briggs (INTARESE & HEIMTSA, Imperial College London, UK) |
9.25 – 9.50 |
Stakeholder Participation and Risk Governance: Bringing Together Different Risk Perspectives
Cindy Jardine (University of Alberta, Canada) |
9.50 – 10.15 |
Expert and regulator perceptions of mapping, assessing and managing multiple cumulative risks
Timo Assmuth (NoMiracle, SYKE, Finland) |
10.15 – 10.40 |
Assessing and managing complex risk factors: lessons from WHO's experience
Marco Martuzzi (INTARESE & HENVINET, WHO-Europe) |
10.40 – 11.00 |
Coffee |
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Session 2 Chair: - Alecos Demetriades |
11.00 – 11.25 |
Effects of measurement strategies on both the assessed and the perceived risk of exposure in human health risk assessment
Mike Ramsey (University of Sussex, UK) |
11.25 – 11.50 |
Do's and don'ts of biomonitoring in integrated risk assessment
Roel Smolders (INTARESE, VITO, Belgium) |
11.50 – 12.15 |
Communication and policy uptake of human biomonitoring research results in Belgium; risk communication and policy interpretation in cooperation with experts, policy makers and stakeholders
Hans Keune (University of Antwerp, Belgium) |
12.15 – 12.40 |
Dealing sensibly with risks - A Dutch approach toward risk management and communication
Leendert van Bree (INTARESE, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) |
12.40 – 13.05 |
Towards Common Terminology and Approaches to Evaluating Scientific Evidence
David Gee (EEA) |
13.05 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 – 15.45 |
Parallel Breakout Sessions
1. Risk or reassurance - what should the community be told?
Alex Stewart (Health Protection Agency, UK)
2. Public Role and Responsibility in the Risk Management of Emerging Scientific Knowledge: A Case Study of Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in Drinking Water
Cindy Jardine (University of Alberta, Canada)
3. Pesticide Air pollution in the Athens urban area
Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati (University of Athens, Greece)
4. Informed consumers? – first pragmatic steps
Speaker tbc (CEFIC) |
15.45 – 16.15 |
Coffee |
16.15 – 16.45 |
Breakout session reports |
16.45 – 18.00 |
Plenary discussion |
Day 3 (4th April 2008) Workshop
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Session 3 - Chair: David Briggs |
9.00 – 9.25 |
New directions for risk assessment of environmental chemical mixtures Denis Sarigiannis (HEIMTSA, HENVINET & 2-FUN, JRC) |
9.25 – 9.50 |
Influence of indoor exposure on eczema in early childhood
Olf Herbarth (NoMiracle, University of Leipzig, Germany) |
9.50 – 10.15 |
Towards an integrated Environmental health informatics system
David Broday (EnviRisk, Technion, Israel) |
10.15 – 10.40 |
Integrating risk perception into the [environmental] health risk model Matti Jantunen (INTARESE, HEIMTSA & EnviRisk, Finnish Public Health Insitute) |
10.40 – 11.00 |
Coffee |
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Session 4 – Chair: Denis Sarigiannis |
11.00 – 11.25 |
Mortality impacts of air pollution and other environmental factors
Brian Miller (Institute of Occupational Medicine, UK) |
11.25 – 11.50 |
Risk mapping of environmental pollutants: state-of-the-art, possibilities and limitations
Joost Lahr (NoMiracle, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) |
11.50 – 12.15 |
PCB Exposures in Eastern Slovakia: Health Effects, Remediation, and “Safe” Levels
Tomas Trnovec (EnviRisk, Slovak Medical University) |
12.15 – 13.00 |
Final discussion and departure |
Integrated Assessment of Health Risks of Environmental Stressors in Europe |
Novel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment of Cumulative stressors in Europe |
Health and Environment Network
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Health and Environment Integrated Methodology and Toolbox for Scenario Assessment
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Network of Reference Laboratories for Monitoring of Emerging Environmental Pollutants
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Full-chain and Uncertainty Approaches for Assessing Health Risks in Future Environmental Scenarios
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Assessing the Risks of Environmental Stressors: Contribution to the Development of Integrating Methodology
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