Introducing Spatial Variability to the Impact Significance Assessment
| Autor: | Sileryte, R., Lopes Gil, J.A., Wandl, Alex, van Timmeren, A., Mansourian, Ali, Pilesjö, Petter, Harrie, Lars, van Lammeren, Ron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Decision support system
Impact assessment Circular economy Impact significance determination 0211 other engineering and technologies Vulnerability 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Field (geography) 13. Climate action 11. Sustainability Sustainability Economics Impact significance assessment Spatial variability Spatial differentiation Spatial decision support Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography ISBN: 9783319782072 AGILE Conf. Geospatial Technologies for All Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography-Geospatial Technologies for All Geospatial Technologies for All: Selected Papers of the 21st AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science |
| ISSN: | 1863-2246 1863-2351 |
| Popis: | The concept of Circular Economy has gained momentum during the last decade. Yet unsustainable circular systems can also create unintended social, economic and environmental damage. Sustainability is highly dependent on a system’s geographical context, such as location of resources, cultural acceptance, economic, environmental and transport geography. While in some cases an impact of the proposed change may be considered equally significant under all circumstances (e.g. increase of carbon emissions as a main contributor to the global climate change), many impacts may change both their direction and the extent of significance dependent on their context (e.g. land consumption may be positively evaluated if applied to abandoned territories or negatively if a forest needs to be sacrificed). The geographical context, (i.e. its sensitivity, vulnerability or potential) is commonly assessed by Spatial Decision Support Systems. However, currently those systems typically do not perform an actual impact assessment as impact characteristics stay constant regardless of location. Likewise, relevant Impact Assessment methods, although gradually becoming more spatial, assume their context as invariable. As a consequence, impact significance so far is also a spatially unvarying concept. However, current technological developments allow to rapidly record, analyse and visualise spatial data. This article introduces the concept of spatially varying impact significance assessment, by reviewing its current definitions in literature, and analysing to what extent the concept is applied in existing assessment methods. It concludes with a formulation of spatially varying impact significance assessment for innovation in the field of impact assessment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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