Sanne Vammen Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanne Vammen Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanne Vammen |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN S V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7731-9296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Are spatial plans transformative for biodiversity and ecosystem services? Insights from seven European countries
This study explores how spatial plans hold transformative potential for biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) valorisation. It develops a conceptual framework that unpacks transformative change for biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning, analysing plans' components—visions, strategies, information baseline, actions, instruments and regulations—through four analytical elements: governance, mitigation hierarchy, spatial planning provision of se…
Benchmarking biodiversity integration in environmental assessments
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of Environmental Assessment (EA) practices across Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, utilizing a best practices benchmark for integrating biodiversity considerations. The benchmark evaluates the degree of alignment between both Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) reports and best practices for biodiversity integration, offering insights …
A scoping review of literature in multilingual assessment in higher education
Recent research regarding internationalized higher education has recognized that although English is commonly used as the medium of instruction, students and teachers are highly multilingual. While there have been calls to transcend the limitations of being English-centric, the need to reconceptualize assessment practices to cater to the needs of multilingual learners has received much less attention. This scoping review synthesizes 28 existing t…
Unpacking dimensions of a tiering typology
Within environmental assessment (EA), tiering between higher-tier strategic environmental assessment at the plan and program level and lower-tier environmental impact assessment at the project level creates effective communication, ensuring that insights are not isolated to the planning level in which they were derived, but can inform and guide other levels. Tiering can travel in many directions – ensuring that strategic goals make it into implem…
Beyond compliance
The global biodiversity crisis underscores the need for transformative change in how development impacts are managed, and biodiversity is preserved. This study explores the integration of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) within spatial planning and infrastructure projects, emphasizing their evolving role in promoting both mitigation and enhancement of impacts. Traditionally, SEAs and EIAs have foc…
Social impacts of bauxite mining and refining
This article presents an extensive review of scientific publications focused on how the impacts of bauxite mining and refining have been investigated. This includes results on which types of impacts have been addressed in scientific publications and details concerning social impacts in the years 2010‒2020. The analysis reveals that while environmental impacts are most prominent in academic publications, social impacts have been increasingly inves…
Collaboration through environmental assessment networks
Inclusion of uncertainty in Environmental Impact Assessment in Greenland
An ocean of ambiguity in Northern European marine spatial planning policy designs
Towards improved participatory scenario methodologies in the Arctic
Participatory scenario methodologies are increasingly used for studying possible future developments in the Arctic. They have the potential to contribute to several high-priority tasks for Arctic research, such as integration of indigenous and local knowledge in futures studies, providing a platform for activating Arctic youth in shaping their futures, identifying Arctic-relevant indicators for sustainable development, and supporting decision-mak…
The mitigation hierarchy upside down – a study of nature protection measures in Danish infrastructure projects
This paper presents a Danish study of mitigation directed at nature protection in environmental impact assessment (EIA) of infrastructure projects. The study is based on a document analysis of EIA reports, a workshop held with EIA professionals, and a study of two cases. The paper takes a point of departure in the mitigation hierarchy as a central conceptual framework, identifies which mitigation measures have been suggested in the EIA reports, a…
Citizens’ self-mobilization, motivational factors, and the group of most engaged citizens
The challenges of risk society for impact assessment
This paper takes its point of departure in Ulrich Beck’s theory of risk society and the aspects that characterise this society. The paper puts forward a hypothesis, on which theoretical challenges the characteristics of risk society pose to impact assessment as a decision support tool; namely, the challenge of delivering assessments and predictions and the challenge of handling differences of opinion and debate. Through a case example of integrat…
How strategic environmental assessment can inform lenders about potential environmental risks
In this paper, we explore the potential for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to be a useful tool for banks to manage environmental risks and inform lending decisions. SEA is an environmental assessment tool that was developed to assist strategic-level decision-makers, such as policy-makers, planners, government authorities and environmental practitioners in improving developmental outcomes, aiming to facilitate the transition to sustainab…
Is environmental impact assessment fulfilling its potential? The case of climate change in renewable energy projects
One of the topics receiving much attention in recent years is climate change and the potential of its integration in impact assessment, both in terms of achieving mitigation and adaptation. Renewable energy projects are part of the efforts to mitigate climate change, replacing the use of fossil fuel with CO2-neutral energy sources. A variety of these projects are subject to environmental impact assessment (EIA), which raises the following questio…
Legitimacy building in weak institutional settings
Local strategies for adaptation to climate change in Denmark and Norway are discussed. In both countries, the national impetus for local adaptation is weak; it is largely left to local actors to take the initiative. The dynamics of the different approaches to climate-change adaptation at the local level are illuminated. Using decision-making and learning theory, we present an analytical framework to examine four cases, two in Norway and two in De…
Avoiding climate change uncertainties in Strategic Environmental Assessment
Mind the gap in SEA
SEA of river basin management plans
In, 2000 the European Parliament and the European Council passed the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to be implemented in all Member States. The consequence of the directive is that river basin management plans (RBMPs) shall be prepared which are legally subject to a strategic environmental assessment (SEA). An important environmental factor for the water sector is climate change, especially the changes it causes to the water environment. However…
Mind the gap in SEA
Avoiding climate change uncertainties in Strategic Environmental Assessment
Collaboration through environmental assessment networks
Legitimacy building in weak institutional settings
Local strategies for adaptation to climate change in Denmark and Norway are discussed. In both countries, the national impetus for local adaptation is weak; it is largely left to local actors to take the initiative. The dynamics of the different approaches to climate-change adaptation at the local level are illuminated. Using decision-making and learning theory, we present an analytical framework to examine four cases, two in Norway and two in De…
Beyond compliance
The global biodiversity crisis underscores the need for transformative change in how development impacts are managed, and biodiversity is preserved. This study explores the integration of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) within spatial planning and infrastructure projects, emphasizing their evolving role in promoting both mitigation and enhancement of impacts. Traditionally, SEAs and EIAs have foc…
Inclusion of uncertainty in Environmental Impact Assessment in Greenland
Citizens’ self-mobilization, motivational factors, and the group of most engaged citizens
The challenges of risk society for impact assessment
This paper takes its point of departure in Ulrich Beck’s theory of risk society and the aspects that characterise this society. The paper puts forward a hypothesis, on which theoretical challenges the characteristics of risk society pose to impact assessment as a decision support tool; namely, the challenge of delivering assessments and predictions and the challenge of handling differences of opinion and debate. Through a case example of integrat…
SEA of river basin management plans
In, 2000 the European Parliament and the European Council passed the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to be implemented in all Member States. The consequence of the directive is that river basin management plans (RBMPs) shall be prepared which are legally subject to a strategic environmental assessment (SEA). An important environmental factor for the water sector is climate change, especially the changes it causes to the water environment. However…
Mind the gap in SEA
Avoiding climate change uncertainties in Strategic Environmental Assessment
Is environmental impact assessment fulfilling its potential? The case of climate change in renewable energy projects
One of the topics receiving much attention in recent years is climate change and the potential of its integration in impact assessment, both in terms of achieving mitigation and adaptation. Renewable energy projects are part of the efforts to mitigate climate change, replacing the use of fossil fuel with CO2-neutral energy sources. A variety of these projects are subject to environmental impact assessment (EIA), which raises the following questio…
Legitimacy building in weak institutional settings
Local strategies for adaptation to climate change in Denmark and Norway are discussed. In both countries, the national impetus for local adaptation is weak; it is largely left to local actors to take the initiative. The dynamics of the different approaches to climate-change adaptation at the local level are illuminated. Using decision-making and learning theory, we present an analytical framework to examine four cases, two in Norway and two in De…
How strategic environmental assessment can inform lenders about potential environmental risks
In this paper, we explore the potential for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to be a useful tool for banks to manage environmental risks and inform lending decisions. SEA is an environmental assessment tool that was developed to assist strategic-level decision-makers, such as policy-makers, planners, government authorities and environmental practitioners in improving developmental outcomes, aiming to facilitate the transition to sustainab…
The challenges of risk society for impact assessment
This paper takes its point of departure in Ulrich Beck’s theory of risk society and the aspects that characterise this society. The paper puts forward a hypothesis, on which theoretical challenges the characteristics of risk society pose to impact assessment as a decision support tool; namely, the challenge of delivering assessments and predictions and the challenge of handling differences of opinion and debate. Through a case example of integrat…
The mitigation hierarchy upside down – a study of nature protection measures in Danish infrastructure projects
This paper presents a Danish study of mitigation directed at nature protection in environmental impact assessment (EIA) of infrastructure projects. The study is based on a document analysis of EIA reports, a workshop held with EIA professionals, and a study of two cases. The paper takes a point of departure in the mitigation hierarchy as a central conceptual framework, identifies which mitigation measures have been suggested in the EIA reports, a…
Citizens’ self-mobilization, motivational factors, and the group of most engaged citizens
Towards improved participatory scenario methodologies in the Arctic
Participatory scenario methodologies are increasingly used for studying possible future developments in the Arctic. They have the potential to contribute to several high-priority tasks for Arctic research, such as integration of indigenous and local knowledge in futures studies, providing a platform for activating Arctic youth in shaping their futures, identifying Arctic-relevant indicators for sustainable development, and supporting decision-mak…
An ocean of ambiguity in Northern European marine spatial planning policy designs
Inclusion of uncertainty in Environmental Impact Assessment in Greenland
Collaboration through environmental assessment networks
Social impacts of bauxite mining and refining
This article presents an extensive review of scientific publications focused on how the impacts of bauxite mining and refining have been investigated. This includes results on which types of impacts have been addressed in scientific publications and details concerning social impacts in the years 2010‒2020. The analysis reveals that while environmental impacts are most prominent in academic publications, social impacts have been increasingly inves…
Beyond compliance
The global biodiversity crisis underscores the need for transformative change in how development impacts are managed, and biodiversity is preserved. This study explores the integration of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) within spatial planning and infrastructure projects, emphasizing their evolving role in promoting both mitigation and enhancement of impacts. Traditionally, SEAs and EIAs have foc…
Are spatial plans transformative for biodiversity and ecosystem services? Insights from seven European countries
This study explores how spatial plans hold transformative potential for biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) valorisation. It develops a conceptual framework that unpacks transformative change for biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning, analysing plans' components—visions, strategies, information baseline, actions, instruments and regulations—through four analytical elements: governance, mitigation hierarchy, spatial planning provision of se…
Benchmarking biodiversity integration in environmental assessments
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of Environmental Assessment (EA) practices across Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, utilizing a best practices benchmark for integrating biodiversity considerations. The benchmark evaluates the degree of alignment between both Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) reports and best practices for biodiversity integration, offering insights …
A scoping review of literature in multilingual assessment in higher education
Recent research regarding internationalized higher education has recognized that although English is commonly used as the medium of instruction, students and teachers are highly multilingual. While there have been calls to transcend the limitations of being English-centric, the need to reconceptualize assessment practices to cater to the needs of multilingual learners has received much less attention. This scoping review synthesizes 28 existing t…
Unpacking dimensions of a tiering typology
Within environmental assessment (EA), tiering between higher-tier strategic environmental assessment at the plan and program level and lower-tier environmental impact assessment at the project level creates effective communication, ensuring that insights are not isolated to the planning level in which they were derived, but can inform and guide other levels. Tiering can travel in many directions – ensuring that strategic goals make it into implem…
Environmental resource management (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (11 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Environmental Science (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental impact assessment (7 works)