ID: 2195
Presenting Author: John Boakye-Danquah
Session: 660 - Using Digital Tools to Enhance Transparency & Collaboration during Impact Assessments
Status: pending
· JExplore innovative tools and techniques that enhance communication and support long term monitoring of impact assessment.
Digital tools for regional and community level cumulative risk assessment are essential for evaluating the environmental impacts of large-scale resource development projects. Cumulative effects assessments are integral to understanding the long-term, regional-scale environmental impacts of resource development projects. These assessments typically involve evaluating a large number of stressors over extended periods and involves engagement and communication among several stakeholders, making them rather complex. Furthermore, traditional risk assessment methods face challenges such as non-generalizability, non-extensibility, and implementation variations, which hinder result standardization and effective communication among the various stakeholders. During the presentation, I will present and demonstrate how to the Risk Assessment Software for Cumulative Effects (RASCE) goes beyond identifying valued ecosystem components and impacts but automatically applies the Risk Assessment Framework for Cumulative Effect Assessment (RAFCE) to generate impact prioritization and develop scenarios. This software has been programmed to enhance the risk assessment process by facilitating early engagement and co-development of cumulative effect assessment projects between Indigenous communities, private sector, and government. The software improves communication on impact assessment by allowing users to simultaneously engage each other in the assessment process. The scenario component of the software facilitates long term monitoring of cumulative effect assessments by modelling the
Dr. John Boakye-Danquah holds a PhD in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, an M.Sc. from the UN University for Advanced Study of Sustainability in Tokyo, Japan,