{"title":"Pieces of an Inter-Disciplinary Puzzle: Connecting Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Disaster Studies","authors":"Peter R. Mulvihill","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>The field of environmental studies has great, but largely under-realized, potential to play an integral role in confronting its <i>raison d'etre—</i>the ecological and climate crisis. Realization of this potential depends on the prospect of stronger connections being made across the wide and eclectic spectrum of its sub-fields. This article explores two sub-fields and streams of literature that have remained mostly unconnected—<i>environmental impact assessment</i> and <i>environmental disaster studies</i>—and identifies cross-cutting concepts and themes. It is argued that greater integration of the two sub-fields may help generate new insights and approaches in the complicated challenge of preventing of environmental disasters.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"18 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Geography Compass","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gec3.70005","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The field of environmental studies has great, but largely under-realized, potential to play an integral role in confronting its raison d'etre—the ecological and climate crisis. Realization of this potential depends on the prospect of stronger connections being made across the wide and eclectic spectrum of its sub-fields. This article explores two sub-fields and streams of literature that have remained mostly unconnected—environmental impact assessment and environmental disaster studies—and identifies cross-cutting concepts and themes. It is argued that greater integration of the two sub-fields may help generate new insights and approaches in the complicated challenge of preventing of environmental disasters.
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Unique in its range, Geography Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed surveys of current research from across the entire discipline. Geography Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and accessible to an international readership. Geography Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, and will provide a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing a research proposal, or just keeping up with new developments in a specific area of interest.