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The planning phase is complete when agreements are reached regarding:
- The management goals for valued ecosystems, components, or features.
- The range of management options the risk assessment is to support.
- Objectives for the risk assessment, including criteria for success.
- Focus and scope of the assessment.
- Resource availability.
The technical approach might also be included in planning, as determined
by the:
- Regulatory or management context.
- Reason for initiating the assessment.
- Spatial scale (local, regional, national).
- Temporal scale (the time frame over which stressors or effects
will be evaluated.
It is useful to summarize these agreements in some way for future
reference, as outlined in the In-Depth discussion linked to below.
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The Planning Summary
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After planning is complete comes problem formulation — the
first phase of the risk assessment proper. Here, risk assessors
continue the dialogue with risk managers, emphasizing selecting
assessment endpoints, developing the conceptual model, and creating
the analysis plan. These are good points at which to identify potential
problems before the risk assessment proceeds.
Relevant
guidelines section(s): 2.3
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