Risk Assessment Tools

ALARM (Assessing Large Scale Risks for Biodiversity with Tested Methods)

ALARM is a research program that is developing and testing methods and protocols for the assessment and forecasting of changes in biodiversity and in structure, function, and dynamics of ecosystems. This relates to ecosystem services and includes the relationship between society, economy and biodiversity. In particular, risks arising from climate change, environmental chemicals, biological invasions and pollinator loss in the context of current and future European land use patterns will be assessed. ALARM will be the first research initiative with the critical mass needed to deal with such aspects of combined impacts and their consequences.

Risk assessments in ALARM will be hierarchical and examine a range of organisational (genes, species, ecosystems), temporal (seasonal, annual, decadal) and spatial scales (habitat, region, continent) determined by the appropriate resolution of current case studies and databases.

RAT (Risk Assessment Toolkit) is an on-line application of the ALARM program to evaluate risks