SP1 comprises the central spine of the project.

Its overall aim is to develop the basic principles and procedures to be applied in the project, co-ordinate and evaluate the results coming from other work packages, and build the results into a coherent approach for integrated assessment.

The specific objectives of this sub-project are:

• to develop a coherent, conceptual framework for integrated environment and health risk assessment;
• to compare, evaluate and develop a set of methods and indicators to represent the links between source and exposure, for use in the assessment procedure;
• to compare, evaluate and develop a set of methods and indicators to represent links between exposure and health effect;
• to develop a set of methods and indicators to characterise the impact in terms of a set of aggregated, policy-relevant indicators that can be used to prioritise issues, compare potential impacts and undertake policy scenario studies; and
• to analyse and assess the various generic and cross-cutting issues that need to be considered in applying methods of integrated assessment to environment and health issues.