scholarly journals Emerging methods and tools for environmental risk assessment, decision-making, and policy for nanomaterials: summary of NATO Advanced Research Workshop

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Linkov ◽  
Jeffery Steevens ◽  
Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon ◽  
Erin Bennett ◽  
Mark Chappell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk Assessment ◽  
Research Workshop

AN APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 1450013 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAN-KAN WU ◽  
LUO-PING ZHANG ◽  
QIN-HUA FANG
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk Assessment ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Xiamen Bay ◽  
Analytical Instruments ◽  
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Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) is a powerful set of technical and analytical instruments for analyzing environmental impacts, and has found application in supporting Decision-Making Processes (DMPs) over the last two decades. However, there is no interrelated application of ERA in Strategic Decision-Making (SDM) processes, and no systematic research on the approaches and methods of ERA to support the processes of SDM. In this paper, a new approach and methodological system of ERA for SDM process is set up, and then applied to the Principal Coastal Functional Zoning (PCFZ) in Xiamen Bay, China, as a case study to verify the feasibility of the proposed approach and its methodology. The results show that the approach and methodology of ERA for SDM could integrate ERA into the entire SDM process, and thereby support the PCFZ directly. Furthermore, this approach avoids or mitigates against dire environmental risk that are sometimes introduced by the SDM processes.

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