Strategic environmental assessment and monitoring : Arctic key gaps and bridging pathways
The Arctic region undergoes rapid and unprecedented environmental change. Environmental assessment and monitoring is needed to understand and decide how to mitigate and/or adapt tothe changes and their impacts on society and ecosystems. This letter analyzes the application of strategic environmental...
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ftkthstockholm:oai:DiVA.org:kth-136076 2024-02-11T10:00:10+01:00 Strategic environmental assessment and monitoring : Arctic key gaps and bridging pathways Azcarate, Juan Balfors, Berit Bring, Arvid Destouni, Georgia 2013 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-136076 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044033 eng eng KTH, Mark- och vattenteknik Stockholm University Environmental Research Letters, 2013, 8:4, s. 044033- orcid:0000-0002-2914-7538 orcid:0000-0003-0214-3921 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-136076 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044033 ISI:000329604900040 Scopus 2-s2.0-84891934551 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Arctic strategic environmental assessment hydroclimatic change climate change Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2013 ftkthstockholm https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044033 2024-01-17T23:32:59Z The Arctic region undergoes rapid and unprecedented environmental change. Environmental assessment and monitoring is needed to understand and decide how to mitigate and/or adapt tothe changes and their impacts on society and ecosystems. This letter analyzes the application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and the monitoring, based on environmental observations, that should be part of SEA, elucidates main gaps in both, and proposes an overarching SEA framework to systematically link and improve both with focus on the rapidly changing Arctic region. Shortcomings in the monitoring of environmental change are concretized by examples of main gaps in the observations of Arctic hydroclimatic changes. For relevant identification and efficient reduction of such gaps and remaining uncertainties under typical conditions of limited monitoring resources, the proposed overarching framework for SEA application includes components for explicit gap/uncertainty handling and monitoring, systematically integrated within all steps of the SEA process. The framework further links to adaptive governance, which should explicitly consider key knowledge and information gaps that are identified through and must be handled in the SEA process, and accordingly (re)formulate and promote necessary new or modified monitoring objectives for bridging these gaps. QC 20140207 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: KTHs Publication Database DiVA Arctic Environmental Research Letters 8 4 044033 |
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The Arctic region undergoes rapid and unprecedented environmental change. Environmental assessment and monitoring is needed to understand and decide how to mitigate and/or adapt tothe changes and their impacts on society and ecosystems. This letter analyzes the application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and the monitoring, based on environmental observations, that should be part of SEA, elucidates main gaps in both, and proposes an overarching SEA framework to systematically link and improve both with focus on the rapidly changing Arctic region. Shortcomings in the monitoring of environmental change are concretized by examples of main gaps in the observations of Arctic hydroclimatic changes. For relevant identification and efficient reduction of such gaps and remaining uncertainties under typical conditions of limited monitoring resources, the proposed overarching framework for SEA application includes components for explicit gap/uncertainty handling and monitoring, systematically integrated within all steps of the SEA process. The framework further links to adaptive governance, which should explicitly consider key knowledge and information gaps that are identified through and must be handled in the SEA process, and accordingly (re)formulate and promote necessary new or modified monitoring objectives for bridging these gaps. QC 20140207 |
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Azcarate, Juan Balfors, Berit Bring, Arvid Destouni, Georgia |
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Strategic environmental assessment and monitoring : Arctic key gaps and bridging pathways |
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Strategic environmental assessment and monitoring : Arctic key gaps and bridging pathways |
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