TERRITORIES: a holistic approach of long-lasting radiological exposure situations

BackgroundTERRITORIES, part of the H2020 Program CONCERT, is a 3-year-project (2017-2019), involving 11 partners, from 8 European countries. The scope of this project includes existing exposure situations due to NORM, and due to nuclear accident (long-term).MethodsAll deliverables are published on the TERRITORIES website, https://territories.eu/. Among them, 7 were due end of June 2019:•D9.63: Guidance about exposure scenario (not developed here, cf. a case-study presented by Bertho et al., RICOMET session 10),•D9.64: Social and ethical aspects linked to monitoring and modelling: a Socio-Technical Integration Research approach (cf. part of the work also presented by Lopez-Asensio et al., RICOMET session 3),•D9.66: Results of a stakeholders panel about an hypothetical post-accidental situation,•D9.67 and D9.68: Results of 2 stakeholders panels about NORM situations (cf. part of the work also presented by Sala et al., RICOMET session 7, and a related review by Popic et al., same session),•D9.69: Results of a Pathway Evaluation Process (PEP) session organized with stakeholders about an hypothetical post-accidental situation,•D9.70: Framework for socio-economic analysis, i.e. Cost-benefit Analysis (CBA) and Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA)ResultsHolism (from Greek ὅλος "all, whole, entire") is the idea that a system and its properties should be viewed as a whole, not just as a collection of parts. In the context of the TERRITORIES project, this is for example understood as:•a multi-disciplinary approach, e.g. having social scientists and scientists involved in monitoring and modelling working together, for their mutual benefit, cf. D9.64,•assessing as a whole all of the decision criteria (or costs and benefits, including non-monetary ones) for decision-making about remediation, cf. D9.70,•engagement of all stakeholders, through various tools to structure dialogue, cf. D9.66 to D9.70,•considering all aspects of life in contaminated territories, including quality of life (cf D9.66), dignity of life (cf. D9.69), or recovery of sustainable socio-economic activity (cf. D9.66).