| Title: |
Assessing and managing multiple risks in a changing world - The Roskilde recommendations |
| Authors: |
Henriette Selck; Peter B. Adamsen; Thomas Backhaus; Gary T. Banta; Peter K. H. Bruce; G. Allen Burton; Michael B. Butts; Eva Boegh; John J. Clague; Khuong V. Dinh; Neelke Doorn; Jonas S. Gunnarsson; Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen; Charles Hazlerigg; Agnieszka D. Hunka; John Jensen; Yan Lin; Susana Loureiro; Simona Miraglia; Wayne R. Munns; Farrokh Nadim; Annemette Palmqvist; Robert A. Rämö; Lauren P. Seaby; Kristian Syberg; Stine R. Tangaa; Amalie Thit; Ronja Windfeld; Maciej Zalewski; Peter M. Chapman |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
Anglia Ruskin University: Figshare |
| Subject Terms: |
Risk assessment; Risk management; Ecosystem services; Climate change; Wicked problems; Multiple environmental stressors |
| Description: |
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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
10779/aru.23778750.v1 |
| Availability: |
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Assessing_and_managing_multiple_risks_in_a_changing_world_-_The_Roskilde_recommendations/23778750 |
| Rights: |
CC BY 4.0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1048C67E |
| Database: |
BASE |