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Imagine that you are a risk assessor entering the information-gathering
stage of an assessment. First, choose an assessment topic. Then,
for a few minutes, think of all the questions you would like to
ask about your topic. Note them on a paper or in a word-processing
program.
For example, for the ecosystem potentially at risk, you would ask: What
are the geographic boundaries? How do they relate to functional characteristics
of the ecosystem?
Reminder! The four
subjects of necessary information are:
- Source and stressor characteristics.
- Exposure characteristics.
- Ecosystems potentially at risk.
- Ecological effects.
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Information Gathering