Application of environmental risk assessment for strategic decision-making in coastal areas: case studies in China

作者：Wu, Kan Kan; Zhang, Luo Ping^*

来源：Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2016, 59(5): 826-842.

DOI：10.1080/09640568.2015.1042151

• Luoyuan Bay
• Xiamen Bay
• environmental risk assessment
• China
• principal coastal functional zoning
• strategic decision-making process

Environmental risk assessment (ERA) is a powerful technical tool for analyzing potential and extreme adverse environmental impacts, and has found wide application in supporting decision-making processes over the last two decades. However, to date there has been no interrelated application of ERA to support the processes of strategic decision-making (SDM), especially in coastal areas.
In this paper, we attempt to verify the feasibility of the proposed integrated ERA-SDM approach and its methodology by applying it to two case studies (in Xiamen Bay and Luoyuan Bay) of the principal coastal functional zoning (PCFZ, a kind of SDM and similar to the coastal and marine spatial planning in western). The results show that the integrated ERA-SDM approach could integrate ERA into the entire SDM process, directly support the PCFZ, and avoid or mitigate dire environmental risk that can be introduced by SDM processes.

• 出版日期2016-5-3
• 单位厦门大学; 国家海洋局第三海洋研究所