Open Science in regulatory environmental risk assessment

• Published in: Integrated environmental assessment and management Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 1229 - 1242
• Main Authors: Brock, Theo C. M., Elliott, Kevin C., Gladbach, Anja, Moermond, Caroline, Romeis, Jörg, Seiler, Thomas‐Benjamin, Solomon, Keith, Peter Dohmen, G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Building trust; Communication; Data quality; Decision making; Environmental assessment; Environmental Impact Assessment; Environmental management; Environmental risk; Government regulations; Health & Ecological Risk Assessment; Integrated environmental assessment; Judgments; NGOs; Nongovernmental organizations; Open access; Organizations; Private sector; Problem formulation; Prospective environmental risk assessment; Regulatory agencies; Risk assessment; Science; Toxicology; Transparency; Transparency (optical); Transparency; Data quality; Building trust; Problem formulation; Prospective environmental risk assessment

A possible way to alleviate the public skepticism toward regulatory science is to increase transparency by making all data and value judgments used in regulatory decision making accessible for public interpretation, ideally early on in the process, and following the concepts of Open Science. This pa...