A limits-oriented adaptive approach for strategic environmental assessment
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 114, S. 128-139
ISSN: 1462-9011
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In: Environmental science & policy, Band 114, S. 128-139
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Risk analysis: an international journal
ISSN: 1539-6924
AbstractRealizing positive social and environmental outcomes from assisted ecosystem adaptation requires the management of complex, uncertain, and ambiguous risks. Using assisted coral reef adaptation as a case study, this article presents a conceptual framework that defines social impacts as the physical and cognitive consequences for people of planned intervention and social risks as potential impacts transformed into objects of management through assessment and governance. Reflecting on its multiple uses in the literature, we consider "social risk" in relation to risks to individuals and communities, risks to First Peoples, risks to businesses or project implementation, possibilities for amplified social vulnerability, and risk perceptions. Although much of this article is devoted to bringing clarity to the different ways in which social risk manifests and to the multiple characters of risk and uncertainty, it is apparent that risk governance itself must be an inherently integrative and social process.
In: JEMA-D-23-04903
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In: Environmental science & policy, Band 141, S. 11-22
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: ENVSCI-D-22-00623
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