31 mei 2022

The VALIDATE handbook: An approach on the integration of values in doing assessments of health technologies

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is defined as a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its lifecycle. The purpose is to inform decision-making in order to promote an equitable, efficient, and high-quality health system. The definition reflects that facts and values are intertwined in HTA. This means that HTA should be considered as a type of policy analysis, wherein the assessment of safety, clinical and cost implications of health technologies, as well as their wider ethical, legal, social, organizational, environmental and other implications is conducted from the view that these aspects are closely interrelated, and wherein stakeholders are involved in a more productive way throughout the process of HTA. Acknowledging this holds the potential of conducting assessments of health technologies in a way that supports deliberative democratic decision making. In the 2018-2021 EU Erasmus+ strategic partnerships project “VALues In Doing Assessments of healthcare TEchnologies” (VALIDATE), a consortium of seven academic and HTA organizations have developed an approach to HTA that allows for the integration of empirical analysis and normative inquiry. The VALIDATE handbook: an approach on the integration of values in doing assessments of health technologies offers the reader an opportunity to get acquainted with the theoretical considerations and apprehend the associated practical and organizational implications of this approach. It offers those interested in HTA to integrate empirical analysis and normative inquiry in a transparent way.

29 april 2020

Moral Imagination and the Future of Cities at Night (Student handout)

Nighttime lighting is foundational to the design and use of cities at night, and new innovations to how we light cities can have far-reaching effects on social and environmental values. Given the confluence of rising concerns about the negative effects of artificial light at night (known as light pollution), combined with the introduction of new lighting technologies (e.g., smart systems, LEDs) as well as the development of other disruptive technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicles), we have a rare opportunity to envision and enact new lighting strategies. But how can these new technologies be adopted and utilized in a creative and responsible way? What values (environmental, social, aesthetic) should inform and drive technological innovation, design and policy choices, and use patterns? In this exercise, students are asked to confront complex and open-ended moral questions related to a critical (if often taken-for-granted) urban infrastructure, exploring how normative theories and value-sensitive design can – and should – inform the future of nighttime lighting.

29 april 2020

Moral Imagination and the Future of Cities at Night (Teacher version)

Nighttime lighting is foundational to the design and use of cities at night, and new innovations to how we light cities can have far-reaching effects on social and environmental values. Given the confluence of rising concerns about the negative effects of artificial light at night (known as light pollution), combined with the introduction of new lighting technologies (e.g., smart systems, LEDs) as well as the development of other disruptive technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicles), we have a rare opportunity to envision and enact new lighting strategies. But how can these new technologies be adopted and utilized in a creative and responsible way? What values (environmental, social, aesthetic) should inform and drive technological innovation, design and policy choices, and use patterns? In this exercise, students are asked to confront complex and open-ended moral questions related to a critical (if often taken-for-granted) urban infrastructure, exploring how normative theories and value-sensitive design can – and should – inform the future of nighttime lighting.

19 oktober 2021

CHALLx - Sustainability is a Choice

2020

4As framework

This resource concerns an introduction to the ‘4 As’: Accessibility, Availability, Affordability, and Acceptability (environmental and social) with energy justice and inclusiveness as running example. Balancing these four critical and interdependent criteria is a recurrent challenge for individuals and society as a whole. The materials are part of the MOOC Inclusive Energy Systems offered by TU Delft. The document provides links to: The MOOC A general introduction to the 4 A framework A more detailed introduction respectively Accessibility, Availability, Affordability, and Acceptability (environmental and social) with energy justice and inclusiveness as running example.

19 oktober 2021

CE02AX - Irreversibility And The Precautionary Approach Part 1

Discusses the costs and benefits of biobased production taking into account potential environmental impacts together with the precautionary principle. Explains the real option theory and the factors that affect the value of the investment in a new biobased product.

23 maart 2021

Landscapes | The Dasgupta Review - (Janet Fisher)

The past decades have seen the rise to dominance of the ecosystem services framework, a worldview and scientific practice that sees the processes of the biosphere through a lens of how they prop up human activities. Within academic circles, the concept is hotly contested. Some see valuing nature with the language of neoclassical economics as the only way to motivate governments and corporate actors into doing responsible environmental action. Others see concepts of ecosystem services and natural capital as the inevitable deepening of predatory capitalist relations extending into new environmental domains. Dr Janet Fisher, an environmental social scientist at the University of Edinburgh, joins the podcast to discuss the newly published Dasgupta Report, an independent review of the relationship between the economy and biodiversity commissioned by the UK Treasury. The report made headlines when it asserted that we should treat nature like an asset and manage it like any other financial portfolio. We discuss how the report is evidence of a rise to dominance of applying economic thinking into the domain of ecology and environmental conservation and what that means for scholars working on landscape science. Links to items mentioned in the episode The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Dempsey, J., & Suarez, D. C. (2016). Arrested development? The promises and paradoxes of “selling nature to save it”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(3), 653-671. The Future of Conservation Project Westman, W. E. (1977). How much are nature's services worth?. Science, 197(4307), 960-964. Ehrlich, P. R. (1968). The population bomb. New York, 72-80. Mark Carney, UN special envoy for climate’s plan for a $100 billion carbon market The Natural Capital Project’s InVEST software Kareiva, P., & Marvier, M. (2012). What is conservation science?. BioScience, 62(11), 962-969. Final Report - The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review The relationship between ecosystem services and human-wellbeing from the MEA. Norgaard, R. B. (2010). Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder. Ecological economics, 69(6), 1219-1227. Fletcher, R., & Büscher, B. (2017). The PES conceit: revisiting the relationship between payments for environmental services and neoliberal conservation. Ecological Economics, 132, 224-231. and response: Van Hecken, G., Kolinjivadi, V., Windey, C., McElwee, P., Shapiro-Garza, E., Huybrechs, F., & Bastiaensen, J. (2018). Silencing agency in payments for ecosystem services (PES) by essentializing a neoliberal ‘monster’into being: a response to Fletcher & Büscher's ‘PES conceit’. Ecological Economics, 144, 314-318. And rejoinder! Fletcher, R., & Büscher, B. (2019). Neoliberalism in Denial in Actor-oriented PES Research? A Rejoinder to Van Hecken et al.(2018) and a Call for Justice. Ecological Economics, 156, 420-423. The UK’s Environmental land management schemes: overview Assetization :Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism Fletcher R., (2021) “Review of Partha Dasgupta. 2021. The economics of biodiversity: the Dasgupta review.”, Journal of Political Ecology 28(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2289 Additional research provided by Scott Herrett for this episode. You can find full transcripts of the episodes and more information at https://adamcalo.substack.com/

20 september 2019

6. Risk Assessment & Regulation

This chapter is the sixth chapter of 'Toxicology, an open online textbook' . The textbook aims at covering the field in its full width, including aspects of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, toxicology and risk assessment. The chapter is about the essence of risk assessment, ecosystem services and protection goals, predictive and diagnostic risk assessment approaches and tools, regulatory frameworks, risk management and risk communication and about risk perception.

7 juni 2019

Business & the sustainable development goals

(RSM, 2018, 123 pag) . In dit boek presenteert Rob van Tulder een raamwerk voor ontwerpen vanbedrijfsstrategieën die effectief zijn voor duurzame ontwikkeling. Bevat daarnaast case studies van bedrijven die SDGs toepassen in hun strategie.

19 februari 2020

Paradigm Shift

A presentation about the concept of paradigms and paradigm shift. Useful for students who go abroad.