Ecological Recovery and Resilience in Environmental Risk Assessments at the European Food Safety Authority

TY - JOUR

T1 - Ecological Recovery and Resilience in Environmental Risk Assessments at the European Food Safety Authority

AU - Brock, Theo

AU - Bigler, Franz

AU - Frampton, Geoff

AU - Hogstrand, Christer

AU - Luttik, Robert

AU - Martin-Laurent, Fabrice

AU - Topping, Christopher John

AU - van der Werf, Wopke

AU - Rortais, Agnes

PY - 2018/9

Y1 - 2018/9

N2 - A conceptual framework was developed by a working group of the Scientific Committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to guide risk assessors and risk managers on when and how to integrate ecological recovery and resilience assessments into environmental risk assessments (ERA). In this commentary we advocate that a systems approach is required to integrate the diversity of ecosystem services (ES) providing units, environmental factors, scales, and stressor-related responses necessary to address the context dependency of recovery and resilience in agricultural landscapes. A future challenge in the resilience assessment remains to identify the relevant bundles of ecosystem services provided by different types of agroecosystem that need to be assessed in concert. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2018;14:586–591.

AB - A conceptual framework was developed by a working group of the Scientific Committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to guide risk assessors and risk managers on when and how to integrate ecological recovery and resilience assessments into environmental risk assessments (ERA). In this commentary we advocate that a systems approach is required to integrate the diversity of ecosystem services (ES) providing units, environmental factors, scales, and stressor-related responses necessary to address the context dependency of recovery and resilience in agricultural landscapes. A future challenge in the resilience assessment remains to identify the relevant bundles of ecosystem services provided by different types of agroecosystem that need to be assessed in concert. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2018;14:586–591.

KW - Ecological resilience

KW - Internal and external recovery

KW - Ecosystem services delivery

KW - Normal operating range

KW - Systems approach

KW - ECOSYSTEM-SERVICES

KW - PESTICIDES

KW - INSECTICIDE

KW - MANAGEMENT

KW - RESPONSES

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051802823&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/ieam.4079

DO - 10.1002/ieam.4079

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 30489025

SN - 1551-3777

VL - 14

SP - 586

EP - 591

JO - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

JF - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

IS - 5

ER -