Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment for Risk Governance Purposes; Across What Do We Integrate?

• Main Author: Erik Lebret
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2015-12-01
• Series: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Subjects: integrated environmental health impact assessment; risk governance; environmental burden of disease; economic costs of environmental health impact; risk perception and acceptability; hierarchy of science; cognitive distance
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/1/71

Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) can be considered as an element in the third phase of environmental risk management. Its focus is on providing inclusive descriptions of multiple impacts from multiple stressors in such a way that they can be evaluated against the potential societal benefits of the causes of the stressors. This paper emphasises some differences and difficulties in the integration across professional paradigms and scientific fields, across stakeholder perspectives and differences in impact indicators that emanate from these different fields and paradigms.