For those who missed the opportunity to attend the mini-symposium on November 14th on the theme 'Environmental risk assessment for plant pests', there is now a possibility to download the presentations.
The presentations are about the potential impact of new pests on ecosystem services, biodiversity and social values and how these values can be assessed and integrated into pest risk assessments.
The assessment of risk to ecosystem services from introduced tree pests and pathogens and mitigation actions – the UK experience
Peter Freer-Smith, Great Britain Forestry Commission and University of California Davis
Challenges in estimating economic effects of plant pests: Costs of invasive pathogens on forests in EU
Ing-Marie Gren, Dept. of Economics, SLU
Ecological impact assessments of alien species
Malin Strand, The Swedish Species Information Centre, SLU
Socio-economic impact assessment of invasive plants: recent developments and limitations
Christoph Kueffer, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich
Environmental risk assessments of plant pests at EFSA
Sybren Vos, European Food Safety Authority
Outcome of the recent VKM-EFSA Symposium
Micael Wendell, Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety
The risk management perspective
Karin Nordin, Swedish Board of Agriculture
Dr Johanna Boberg, analystSLU Risk assessment of plant pests
johanna.boberg@slu.se, +4618-671804
SLU Risk assessment of plant pests
niklas.bjorklund@slu.se, +4618-672879, +4670 5082879