Roskilde
Denmark

The Environmental Risk Conference

Organizer(s) Roskilde University
Venue
Roskilde University (RUC)
Date
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Introduction:

Technological developments over the past century have improved the quality of life for many. However, in combination with exponential population growth, human developments have also negatively impacted many of the world’s ecosystems in many ways through for example over-exploitation of natural resources, pollution, and changes to the climate system. The increasing vulnerability of the growing world population to the multiple risks posed by rapidly deteriorating ecosystems and natural hazards (such as extreme weather) urgently requires that critical decisions be made. Action is required. But how can decisions be made efficiently and effectively without understanding the relative risks of environmental susceptibilities to various technologies and related human activities? How can scientists and regulators determine what action or threshold is “safe enough”? How can stakeholders be part of such transformative processes?

Assessing multiple risks:

Robust methods for assessing society’s vulnerability to the multiple risks in our rapidly changing world are an essential prerequisite for environmental management. This Roskilde University conference will bring together leading scientists and policy experts from government, academia, industry and NGOs to discuss the topics that form the nexus of environmental risk assessment and management.

The first part of the conference will focus on methods for assessing different types of risk e.g:

  1. Risk to water quality and quantity,
  2. Risk to ecosystems from pollution, and
  3. Risk from extreme weather and other natural hazards.

These discussions will provide the framework for the latter part of the conference, which will focus on decision-making and the management of these multiple risks efficiently and effectively. We see this conference as an important component of the continuing, and increasingly urgent discussion regarding how to best address the many risks that humanity currently faces, without having additional negative consequences to the environment or to human health.

Overall program:

The conference involves Risk Assessment and Risk Management of:

  • Geospheric Hazards (e.g., volcanic eruptions, earth quakes)
  • Environmental Change (e.g., hydrological extremes, changing water cycles)
  • Anthropogenic Hazards (e.g., from industry and agriculture)
  • Societal Issues (e.g., risk perception, communication)

The Conference consists of a two day program of platform and poster presentations as well as facilitated discussions in break-out groups and in plenum. The program is available here.

Why attend?

This conference, with keynote talks by internationally-recognized experts in advance of discussions in breakout sessions and plenary, will set the stage for future risk assessments that go well beyond present localized, primarily single stressor-based assessments, to consider all the stressors affecting our environment and ourselves. Attend to network, learn, contribute in the discussions with or without a poster presentation, and help move the science forward. We are at the cusp of major changes to our planet; the synergies from this meeting and the resulting publications will be pivotal to future science informing national and international policy decision-making.

Outcome:

We expect the outcome to be of great interest to the scientific community as well as the general public. Thus, the detailed presentations and discussions at the conference will be published in the scientific literature as a number of peer-reviewed papers in a special issue of the international journal, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. The key findings and conclusions will be summarized in press releases sent to appropriate media, circulated via social media, and in briefing notes prepared for and sent to appropriate government agencies

Conference fees:

  • Early bird conference fee: 2300 DKK (310 Euro)
  • Late conference fee: 3000 DKK (405 Euro)
  • Early bird student fee: 1000 DKK (135 Euro)
  • Late student fee: 1400 DKK (190 Euro)

All fees include conference attendance (with or without a poster), coffee breaks, 2 lunches and banquet dinner. Student fee apply to bachelor, master and PhD-students.

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