Assessing and managing multiple risks in a changing world – The Roskilde recommendationsStockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
DHI Group, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Enviresearch, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark.
Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
US Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA.
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology (Polish Academy of Sciences), Lodz, Poland.
Chapema Environmental Strategies, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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2017 (English)In: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, ISSN 0730-7268, E-ISSN 1552-8618, Vol. 36, no 1, p. 7-16Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Roskilde University (Denmark) hosted a November 2015 workshop, Environmental Risk—Assessing and Managing Multiple Risks in a Changing World. This Focus article presents the consensus recommendations of 30 attendees from 9 countries regarding implementation of a common currency (ecosystem services) for holistic environmental risk assessment and management; improvements to risk assessment and management in a complex, human-modified, and changing world; appropriate development of protection goals in a 2-stage process; dealing with societal issues; risk-management information needs; conducting risk assessment of risk management; and development of adaptive and flexible regulatory systems. The authors encourage both cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to address their 10 recommendations: 1) adopt ecosystem services as a common currency for risk assessment and management; 2) consider cumulative stressors (chemical and nonchemical) and determine which dominate to best manage and restore ecosystem services; 3) fully integrate risk managers and communities of interest into the risk-assessment process; 4) fully integrate risk assessors and communities of interest into the risk-management process; 5) consider socioeconomics and increased transparency in both risk assessment and risk management; 6) recognize the ethical rights of humans and ecosystems to an adequate level of protection; 7) determine relevant reference conditions and the proper ecological context for assessments in human-modified systems; 8) assess risks and benefits to humans and the ecosystem and consider unintended consequences of management actions; 9) avoid excessive conservatism or possible underprotection resulting from sole reliance on binary, numerical benchmarks; and 10) develop adaptive risk-management and regulatory goals based on ranges of uncertainty. © 2016 SETAC
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2017. Vol. 36, no 1, p. 7-16
Keywords [en]
Ecological risk assessment - ERA, Risk assessment, Risk management, Ecosystem services, Climate change, Wicked problems, Multiple environmental stressors
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Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-35329DOI: 10.1002/etc.3513ISI: 000391029800001PubMedID: 28024105Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85007071648OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-35329DiVA, id: diva2:1154859
Note
Funding: Roskilde University and their Environmental Risk Research Initiative. S. Loureiro acknowledges the financial support of CESAM (UID/AMB/50017), to FCT/MEC through national funds, and the cofunding by FEDER (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007638), within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020.
2017-11-062017-11-062020-05-07Bibliographically approved