Course introduction MVEN10

Ullrika Sahlin

2023-08-28

Welcome to Risk Assessment in Environment and Public Health

• Course coordinator: Ullrika Sahlin

• Course platform https://canvas.education.lu.se/courses/23481

• Course syllabus

• Study directors:

  • Helena Hansson Environmental Science
  • Stefan Olin Applied Computational Science appliedcompsci@math.lu.se

Why study risk assessment

• To be competitive on the job market

  • there is a lot of experts, but fewer experts on risk assessment

• To better understand what expertise is required when assessing risk

  • motivation to become an expert
  • strengthen your interdisciplinary perspective

• To be able to contribute to better management, including assessment and communication, of risk

• To become a better decision maker yourself

Lectures

• 10 lectures
• Occupational and Health Medicine
• Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
• Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Making (parallel course)

Exercises

• 28 carried out over 9 occasions (topics canvas)
• You are expected to use your own computer (notify!)
• material published on https://ullrika.github.io/MVEN10material/
• reporting according to instructions

Tools

• Use open source tools for scientific assessment
  • Excel
  • R
  • Quarto

Literature seminars

• 2 seminars
• • 1 within an exercise (cancelled)
• Come prepared!

Book seminars

• 5 book seminars (overview canvas) (one was cancelled)
• Presenter, Opponent, Reviewer with different roles

Case studies

• 4 groups with tutors
• 2 sessions
• Problem Based Learning (canvas)
• Case studies (canvas)
• You are expected to bring your own computer (Notify!)
• Written reports per group that will be shared with all

Course literature

• Burgman, Mark. Risks and decisions for conservation and environmental management. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

• Literature for seminars

• Other material handed out during the course

• Explicit references from lectures

Non-scheduled time

• This course is 15 credits and assumes 100% study pace

• Non-scheduled time implies self studies

Grading and compulsory assignments

• Participation in written assignments, exercises, project work and associated parts is compulsory

• Reports from case studies, exercises and project work is failed or passed

• The written examination is failed, passed or passed with distinction

• An exam in class and a home exam

Todo

1. Choose a course representative

2. Remind to inform us if you need to borrow a computer during class

3. Modify groups for book seminars - if asked for

4. Modify groups for case studies - if asked for