The EcoChallenge Game

EcoChallenge is an innovative game that demonstrates the principles and practices of the ecological risk assessment and the challenges of resource-limited, multi-stakeholder decision-making.

Ecological Risk Assessment FAQ/Technical Issue Paper

This document explains some of the basic principles of ecological risk assessment, and briefly and simply explains the following:

What is ecological risk assessment?
What is ERA used for?
What are ERA's basic concepts?
How is ERA done?
How does ERA relate to decision-making?
What are ERAs designed to protect?
Won't protection of humans also result in protection of the environment?
How are ERA predictions useful?
How complex are ERAs?
What is the future of ERA?
Where is there more information about ERA?
Ecological risk assessment terms