ISEEH has welcomed contributions from leading academics and practitioners as well as young academics with an interest in environmental health ethics, but also medical ethics, risk ethics, communication ethics and other related topics, since its founding in 2011.

The following speakers contributed to the 2022 symposium and many have agreed that their presentation would be made available here:

Sunday, September 11, 2022

The safety of selected soft targets in South Bohemia
Štěpan Kavan, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Monday, September 12, 2022

The moral landscape in an era of rapid global changes
David A. Etkin, Toronto, Canada

New challenges in Environmental Health
Susana Paixão, Coimbra, Portugal

Ethical behaviour as a basis of planetary health
Liudmila Liutsko, Barcelona, Spain

An ethical “capability-possibility” framework for health risk governance
Gaston Meskens, Mol/Ghent, Belgium

Technology assessment as a means to foster ethical reflections on wider effects of new and emerging technologies in postnormal times
Tom H. Børsen, Aalborg, Denmark

Paradigm shift in decision-making on endocrine disruptors
Klara Matoušková, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Communication of scientific facts when addressing radiation concerns
Noboru Takamura, Nagasaki, Japan

Does the end justify all means? – Fear and ethical aspects of risk communication
Patrick Meschenmoser, Vienna, Austria

Some considerations on the tolerability of radiological risk
Jacques Lochard, Nagasaki, Japan

Is medical dose limit exemption unethical?
Jim Malone, Dublin, Ireland

The Brave New World of radiation protection: ethical implications of developments in information technology
Deborah H. Oughton, Ås, Norway

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Environmental ethics in the 21st century
Jiří Šimek, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Cross-cultural validity of principles for environmental ethics
Friedo Zölzer, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Values on fire: Ethics in the context of wildland fires
Eric B. Kennedy, Toronto, Canada

Governing energy transition in the face of normative uncertainties
Behnam Taebi, Delft, The Netherlands

The ethics of Black Elephant risks: The moral obligation of adapting to sea-level rise
Per Wikman Svahn, Stockholm, Sweden

Agent based modelling of empathy: Case of climate change mitigation/adaptation
Ali Asgary, Toronto, Canada

Informing the public about a radiological or nuclear attack: lessons from Cold War communication plans
Yevgeniya Tomkiv, Ås, Norway

Ethical dilemmas from the legacy of preparing for the “N” in CBRNE threats: Challenges facing the reuse of obsolete nuclear war bunkers in Canada
Jack L. Rozdilsky, Toronto, Canada

“Can you get anyone to care?” - Communicating the legacy of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster during the COVID-19 pandemic
Makoto Takahashi, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Images and reflections: Visual art as an aid to understanding and communicating ethics in medical radiological protection
Jim Malone, Dublin, Ireland

Using art and expression to explore social and ethical issues relevant to the nuclear and radiological sciences with emphasis on the environment
Nicole Martinez, Clemson, South Carolina, USA