General
Plant
Health Environmental Assessments
USDA. APHIS.
Plant Protection and Quarantine.
Provides plant protection and quarantine environmental documents for various
species.
Conservation by Design Gateway
The Nature Conservancy.
A "one-stop" online, public library, created
and maintained by The Nature Conservancy in partnership
with other conservation organizations. The library
makes conservation tools, techniques, and experience
available to a broad community of conservation practitioners.
This site is intended to foster learning and collaboration,
and provide information and support to anyone making
conservation-related decisions, from the staff of conservation
organizations to land managers at government agencies
to local land trusts to private landowners.
Experiences, Case Studies, and Assessments
Convention on Biological Diversity.
Provides sources of information on experiences with invasive
alien species, including case studies and assessments;
inlcudes U.S. and International resources.
Halting
the Invasion: State Tools for Invasive Species Management (Aug
2002)
Environmental Law Institute.
Note: Fee for full report, free
download of Table of Contents and Introduction.
Invasive Species: General Decision Process for Managing Invasive Plant Species in
Garry Oak (British Columbia, Canada) and Associated Ecosystems
Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team.
Invasive
Species Impact and Prevention/Early Action Assessment
Tool (2009; PDF | 82 KB)
Washington Invasive Species Council.
Identification of Risks and Management of Invasive Alien Species using the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) Framework
Proceedings of a workshop in Braunschweig, Germany held Sep 22-26, 2003
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Note: See Section 4 - Pest risk analysis, including analysis of environmental risk Invasive
Alien Species - A Toolkit of Best Prevention and Management
Practices (2001; PDF | 2.4 MB)
CAB International.
On behalf of the Global Invasive Species Programme
Invasive Species System
University of Florida. IFAS. International Agricultural Trade & Policy Center.
This project is aimed at designing a practical tool for invasive species management. A decision-making framework is being developed that will be capable of informing policy makers over a wide range of policy issues.
Modeling software for climate change and invasive species -- CLIMEX
Hearne Scientific Software.
CLIMEX enables you to assess the risk of a pest establishing in a new location and the potential success or failure of a biological control agent with no knowledge of the species, except for knowing the current locations they do occur.
Pest Risk Analysis
European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization.
Risk Analysis for the EPPO region (48 European and Mediterraneancountries) which deals with agricultural, economic or environmental impacts. It can be used for every organisms and can be both species or pathway initiated. It is the regional tool adapted from ISPM 11 which is already used by countries.
Pest Risk Assessments - National CAPS Commitee Fiscal Year 2007 Target Pests
USDA. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Pets,
Aquarium, and Terrarium Species: Best Practices for
Addressing Risks to Biodiversity (2010; PDF | 874 KB)
Secreteriat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
CBD Technical Series No. 48
This report is largely based on the 2008 Expert
Workshop on Preventing Biological Invasions: Best Practices in Pre-Import Risk
Screening for Species of Live Animals in International Trade (University
of Notre Dame, Indiana, Apr 9-11, 2008), summarized in the report Best
Practices in Pre-Import Risk Screening for Species of Live Animals in International
Trade (2009; PDF | 2.1 MB), but contains additional information beyond what
was covered in the workshop.
Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment and the Relative
Risk Model
Western Washington University. Institute of Environmental Toxicology.
Standard
Methodology to Assess the Risks from Non-native Species
Considered Possible Problems to the Environment -
Executive Summary (2005; PDF | 15)
United Kingdom Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Wildlife and Countryside.
In response to a key recommendation from the Defra Review of Non-Native Species Policy, Defra funded a one-year project starting in January 2004 to develop a scheme for assessing the risks posed by any non-native organism to species, habitats or ecosystems in all or part of the UK.
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center
(EFETAC)
USDA.
Forest Service.
The mission of the Eastern Forest Environmental
Threat Assessment Center is to generate, integrate, and
apply knowledge to predict, detect, and assess environmental
threats to public and private forests of the east, and
to deliver this knowledge to managers in ways that are
timely, useful, and user friendly.
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