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Title: Environment and health EEA assessment perspectives


1
Environment and health EEA assessment
perspectives
  • Ingvar Andersson
  • European Environment Agency

2
Outline
  • EEA tasks
  • Assessment and reporting frameworks
  • The shift from uni-causality to multi-causality
  • Conclusions
  • Some sources

3
The EEA mission
The European Environment Agency is the EU body
dedicated to providing sound, independent
information on the environment We are a main
information source for those involved in
developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating
environmental policy, and also the general
public  
4
What is our mandate?
  • To help the Community and member countries make
    informed decisions about improving the
    environment, integrating environmental
    considerations into economic policies and moving
    towards sustainability
  • To coordinate the European environment
    information and observation network (Eionet)

5
The EEA is...
  • An independent information provider
  • An analyst and assessor
  • Building bridges between science and policy
  • Dependent upon strong networks to carry out its
    work
  • ...to support policy processes and inform the
    public

6
How does the EEA reach its objectives?
  • By providing a wide range of information and
    assessments of
  • The state of the environment and trends
  • Pressures on the environment and the driving
    forces behind them
  • Policies and their effectiveness
  • Outlooks/scenarios

7
Who are EEAs clients?
  • Institutions and governments
  • European Commission, Parliament, Council, EEA
    member countries
  • Influencers
  • NGOs, business, media, advisory groups,
    scientists, debaters
  • General public

8
What are our products?
  • EEA 5-year state and outlook reports
  • EEA Signals
  • EEA Reports
  • EEA Briefings
  • EEA Technical reports
  • EEA Fact sheets
  • EEA Multimedia publications
  • Information services on the internet
  • Platform for meetings in the interfaces
    EIONET/scientific networks/policy networks

9
Assessment and reporting frameworks
10
The DPSIR assessment framework
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Effectiveness of responses
D
R

Costs and benefits of action/in-action
Poverty Lifestyle Nutrition
I
P
  • Exposure/effect relationships
  • Biomarkers

S
Exposure routes Fate
12
The OECD Pressure-State-Response Model
(e.g. OECD, 1985)
13
The WHO DPSEEA framework
14
Source Briggs (2003).
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Knowledge
Evidence
Health
Action
Exposure assessment
Multi- causality
Exposure

Chemical body burden
Public perception
Cancer
Legislation
Combined exposures
Vulnerability
Lung diseases
Exposure routes
Nutrition
State-of- the-art
Risk management
Asthma
Timing
Lifestyle
Neuro-toxicity
Psychology
Endocrinedisorders
Information

Prevention
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The shift from uni-causality to multi-causality
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  • The two perspectives
  • Pollution perspective
  • Public health perspective

20
Pollution management perspective
21
Public health
22
Management of public health and pollution
main differences
23
Some challenges
  • Evidence public perception State of the art -
    early warning
  • Multi-stakeholder perspective (together with the
    the full chain approach)
  • Combined exposures
  • Multi-causality - look at more stressors and
    combinations
  • Early exposure late effects
  • Expand the causal chain, including driving forces
    and effectiveness of policies
  • Integrated risk assessment how to combine
    epidemiology, toxicology and eco-toxicology
  • Europe in a global context and Europes impact on
    developing countries

24
Burden of disease in 2000 due to selected health
determinants for Western Europe, Europe and
worldwide, as a percentage of total burden of
disease (Guus de Hollander 2007, adapted from
Ezzati et al., 2002).
.
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EEA needs links to EEA products services
  • Science-based assessments, indicator development,
    reporting and communication
  • Environmental burden of disease, development of
    quantitative estimates of health impacts
  • Spatial EH information
  • Bio-monitoring for follow up of interventions and
    early warning

27
Conclusions
  • EEA SOER EH assessment a combination of DPSEEA
    with different focus
  • Be flexible - use framework depending on purpose
    and target group
  • Scientist have to respond to these user needs,
    EEA has to rely upon scientific networks

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Some sources
  • EEA state of the Environment reporting 1995-2005
    http//www.eea.europa.eu
  • EEA and Joint Research Centre, 2005 Environment
    and health. EEA Report No 10/2005. ISSN 1725-9177
  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems
    and Human Well-being Synthesis. Island Press,
    Washington, DC.
  • OECD, 2005 Childrens environment and health
    indicators, A survey ENV/EPOC/WPNEP 16 FINAL
  • David J.Rapport Ashbindu Singh An EcoHealth
    based framework for State of Environment
    Reporting. Ecological indicators 6(2006) 409-428
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