Novelli, Emanuele: A rapid impact assessment approach for decision support in food policy. - Bonn, 2012. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/5107,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-28700,
author = {{Emanuele Novelli}},
title = {A rapid impact assessment approach for decision support in food policy},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2012,
month = jun,

note = {Under the pressure of many alternative stakeholders’ demands, the food policy maker needs to consider regulatory decisions in order to grant a safe final product for the consumer, as well as to foster the improvement of the agro-food supply system. However, current ex-ante impact assessment systems present many evaluation shortcomings due to the intrinsic difficulty of: modelling impact phenomena, establishing reliable time-related parameters and predicting food supply network actors’ behaviour. Considering these issues the present doctoral thesis proposes an alternative assessment approach, based on a mix of qualitative and quantitative elements, able to rapidly obtain impacts and display them in an intuitively comprehensible visualization. Main features of the created model are: the consequentiality between food sector enterprises’ compliance with new policies and the calculation of potential macro impacts, the highly disaggregated multi-level government impacts data collection, the structured procedure in analysing the numerous impact categories and the indication of inputs uncertainty. Results from two case studies (Directive 2009/128/EC of the 21st of October 2009 ‘establishing a framework for Community action to achieve the sustainable use of pesticides’ and European Commission Proposal of 30th January 2008 for a Regulation ‘on the provision of food information to consumers – allergens focus’), a simulation and direct interviews to prospective users of the model (European Commission Departments members), revealed the complementary role of the rapid assessment approach in respect of part of the current impact assessment system. Finally a dedicated software illustrates how the rapid assessment approach could serve policy makers in supporting their decisions when dealing with food regulations’ outcomes improvement.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/5107}
}

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