Assessing and Managing Multiple Risks in a Changing World–the Roskilde Recommendations
| Title: | Assessing and Managing Multiple Risks in a Changing World–the Roskilde Recommendations |
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| Authors: | Selck, Henriette; Adamsen, Peter B.; Backhaus, Thomas; Banta, Gary Thomas; Bruce, Peter K.H .; Burton Jr., G. Allen; Butts, Michael B.; Bøgh, Eva; Clague, John J.; Dinh, Khuong Van; Doorn, Neelke; Gunnarsson, Jonas S.; Hauggaard-Nielsen, Henrik; Hazlerigg, Charles; Hunka, Agnieszka D.; Jensen, John; Lin, Yan; Loureiro, Susana; Miraglia, Simona; Munns Jr., Wayne R.; Nadim, Farrokh; Palmqvist, Annemette; Rämö, Robert A.; Seaby, Lauren Paige; Syberg, Kristian; Tangaa, Stine Rosendal; Jensen, Amalie Thit; Windfeld, Ronja; Zalewski, Maciej; Chapman, Peter M. |
| Source: | Selck, H, Adamsen, P B, Backhaus, T, Banta, G T, Bruce, P K H, Burton Jr., G A, Butts, M B, Bøgh, E, Clague, J J, Dinh, K V, Doorn, N, Gunnarsson, J S, Hauggaard-Nielsen, H, Hazlerigg, C, Hunka, A D, Jensen, J, Lin, Y, Loureiro, S, Miraglia, S, Munns Jr., W R, Nadim, F, Palmqvist, A, Rämö, R A, Seaby, L P, Syberg, K, Tangaa, S R, Jensen, A T, Windfeld, R, Zalewski, M & Chapman, P M 2017, 'Assessing and Managing Multiple Risks in a Changing World–the Roskilde Recommendations', Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vol. 36, no. 1, .... |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Collection: | Roskilde Universitets forskningsportal (RUC) / Roskilde University Research Portal |
| Subject Terms: | Climate change; Ecosystem services; Multiple environmental stressors; Risk assessment; Risk management; Wicked problems |
| 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: | conference object |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 0730-7268; 1552-8618 |
| Relation: | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/hdl/https://hdl.handle.net/1800/55b518b6-0324-456d-b085-af9f4c1a1dfa; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/0730-7268; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1552-8618 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/etc.3513 |
| Availability: | https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/55b518b6-0324-456d-b085-af9f4c1a1dfa; https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.3513; https://hdl.handle.net/1800/55b518b6-0324-456d-b085-af9f4c1a1dfa; https://rucforsk.ruc.dk/ws/files/59987118/Selck_et_al_2017_Environmental_Toxicology_and_Chemistry.pdf |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.A8B2057D |
| Database: | BASE |