Environmental Risk Management

04/09/2009 Arrival

05/09/2009

9:30 Prof. Contin: welcome

9:45 Paolo Ricci: Errors and consequences: Three-Miles Island, high level nuclear waste repository choice in the US, medical errors, sub-prime loans

11:00 Coffe Break

11:15 Paolo Ricci: Three pillars of decision-making: analytical, judgmental, and neurological aspects of a single unified theory for prospective choices

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Paolo Ricci: Policy and uncertainty: climate change and societal costs and benefits.

16:00 Coffe Break

16:15 Paolo Ricci: Case study: Choice of technologies to generate electricity

17:45 Conclusions

6/10/2009

9:15 Paolo Ricci: Case study: cancer cluster in NSW (Australia)

11:00 Coffe Break

11:15 Paolo Ricci: Case study: Investigation of possible children diseases due to contaminated water

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Massimo Andretta: A new methodology for the risk assessment of biomass plants. Theoretical aspects and case studies

16:00 Coffe Break

16:15 Paolo Ricci: Causal models in risk assessment: dose-response models and choice of models

17:45 Conclusions

7/10/2009

9:15 Paolo Ricci: Decision analysis: Classical decision theory and it's paradoxes

11:00 Coffe Break

11:15 Paolo Ricci: Decision analysis: Prospect and other theories that resolve paradoxes

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Paolo Ricci: Fast and frugal rules: what to do when time is of the essence

16:00 Coffe Break

16:15 Ing. Pamela Morra: Major Hazard and Environmental Risk Assessment: the case studies of industrial sites of Ravenna and Messina.

17:45 Conclusions

8/10/2009

9:15 Paolo Ricci: Technological risk assessment: a prime

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Paolo Ricci: Technological risks: Issues and solutions

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Ing. Alessia Lambertini: Case study: Urban planning and relevant risk areas: the role of risk assessment

15:45 Coffee Break

16:00 Prof. Stefano Guerzoni: Case study: the role of science in the Porto Marghera's trial

18:00 Conclusions

9/10/2009

9:15 Departure

Excursion in the Venice lagoon

18:00 Arrival to Ravenna

10/10/2009

9:15

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Paolo Ricci: Questions and answers

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Paolo Ricci: Recapitulation and unresolved issues.

11/10/2009 Departure