Incremental environmental change can be as hazardous as a sudden shock – managing these ‘slow-burning’ risks is vital
- Written by Dr Wendy Liu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Environment and Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland
New Zealanders are exposed to hazards from many sources – human-made and natural – in food, water, soil and air.
Although risk assessment and management procedures try to account for hazards in a systematic way, they often overlook risks arising from incremental and seemingly insignificant environmental changes. But over time, or when...
