caa a22 4500 463194764 CHVBK 20180406164919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9017-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9017-8 Reflecting on stakeholders' perceptions in an Ecological Risk Assessment workshop: Lessons for practitioners [Elektronische Daten] [B. Kellett, R. Beilin, K. Bristow, G. Moore, F. Chiew] A new form of Ecological Risk Assessment aims to improve environmental decision-making through strong stakeholder engagement, often in workshop situations. This wider focus increases interaction between workshop practitioners and stakeholders for reflecting on, and learning from, each others perceptions. In this article, we analyse and discuss a one day workshop that was concerned with trialling this method of deriving an Ecological Risk Assessment. We found that stakeholders had issues with some elements of the workshop process. The decision problem was formulated prior to the workshop and without consultation among all the stakeholders. Consequently, the original decision problem was rejected for a mutually derived broader focus and this resulted in a loss of clarity and purpose. Stakeholders did not wholly concur with the prioritising of ecological values over social and economic values and some stakeholders objected to defining assessment endpoints, because it implies a reductionist approach that doesn't capture significance and understanding of systems. Ecological Risk Assessment workshops are complex and require significant practitioner and stakeholder development to provide useful and mutually derived outcomes. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Ecological Risk Assessment nationallicence Stakeholders' perceptions nationallicence Lessons for practitioners nationallicence Kellett B. CSIRO Land and Water, Davies Laboratory, PMB Aitkenvale, 4814, Townsville, QLD, Australia aut Beilin R. Faculty of Land and Food Resources, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia aut Bristow K. CSIRO Land and Water, Davies Laboratory, PMB Aitkenvale, 4814, Townsville, QLD, Australia aut Moore G. CRC for Irrigation Futures, Townsville & Melbourne, Australia aut Chiew F. CRC for Irrigation Futures, Townsville & Melbourne, Australia aut The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 109-117 0251-1088 27:1<109 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9017-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9017-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kellett B. CSIRO Land and Water, Davies Laboratory, PMB Aitkenvale, 4814, Townsville, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beilin R. Faculty of Land and Food Resources, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bristow K. CSIRO Land and Water, Davies Laboratory, PMB Aitkenvale, 4814, Townsville, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moore G. CRC for Irrigation Futures, Townsville & Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chiew F. CRC for Irrigation Futures, Townsville & Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 109-117 0251-1088 27:1<109 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer