title: Assessing and managing multiple risks in a changing world-The Roskilde recommendations.
abstract: 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. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017;36:7-16. © 2016 SETAC.
authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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authors.affiliation: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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authors.affiliation: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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authors.affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
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authors.lastname: Munns
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Farrokh
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authors.lastname: Nadim
authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Annemette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Palmqvist
authors.affiliation: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Rämö
authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Seaby
authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Kristian
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authors.lastname: Syberg
authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Stine R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Tangaa
authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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authors.affiliation: Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Ronja
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mesh_terms: D057231:Climate Change; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D003718:Denmark; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012308:Risk Management
keywords: Climate change; Ecosystem services; Multiple environmental stressors; Risk assessment; Risk management; Wicked problems