Information the Risk Assessor Provides to the Risk Manager (Text Version)

Consider the lines below if specific items risk managers need to be able to explain.

• What [ecological] [resources] are at risk.
• [What] the risks are.
• What is [causing] the risk.
• The [significance] of the risk (e.g., [nature and intensity, spatial and temporal scale, and recovery potential]).
• The degree of [confidence] in the risk assessment.
• The [tradeoffs] associated with protecting (and failing to protect) the resource.
• Potential [options] for [reducing] risk.

Relevant guidelines section(s): 6.0