VALESOR aims to make major contributions to the scientific and policy efforts to accommodate economic values of environmental stressors more homogenously in policy making, planning, focusing on chemical stressors such as chemicals and air pollutants transmitted via air, water, and soil vectors.
VALESOR will launch its new innovative online tool for stakeholders to assess health and economic consequences of planned variations in chemical stressors. This tool is based on the existing Alpha-RiskPoll model, used as a policy decision support tool within air pollution reduction work conducted by the EU and by the Air Convention. The tool operates with emission reduction scenarios and for each scenario provides users with a set of outputs such as the effects on health (decreased mortality, morbidity) and the expected benefits. The tool allows end users to easily test several valuation methods, adjust values of key parameters and directly see changes in the results.
Join VALESOR on 23 October for a workshop to explore the tool and its uses.
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Agenda
08.45 – 09.00 – Welcome & Introduction to Workshop main objectives and scope (Dr. Gildas Appéré, University of Angers, Dr. Stefan Åström, Anthesis)
09.00 – 09.45 – Presentation of Alpha-RiskPoll model and VALESOR tool (Dr. Michael Holland, EMRC, Katarina Yaramenka, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute)
09.45 – 10.15 – Presentation of the VALESOR case studies (Dr. Joseph Spadaro, SERC)
10.15 – 10.30 – Break
10.30 – 11.15 – Presentation of PARC project expected results / tool (Dr. Christophe Rouselle, PARC project)
11.15 – 11.45 – VALESOR use cases demonstration (Katarina Yaramenka, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute)
11.45 – 12.15 – Testing the VALESOR tool, Other EU-funded projects and speakers
12.15 – 13.00 – Open discussion
