This chapter presents an argument for the need for a team. It describes a traditional interaction between phytosanitary risk managers and risk assessors and follows this up with a description of an ideal set of interactions. It concludes with the qualities of a good team and a discussion of the...

This chapter presents a conceptual holistic approach to risk management. It considers risk management as part of a larger process. The chapter also presents a number of models that are useful to aid one's big-picture thinking about risk management and reviews some of the seminal phytosanitary risk...

This chapter provides a description of the risk concepts that risk managers need to understand in order to function in their jobs. It does not adhere strictly to the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) and International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) notions of risk management. Phytosanitary risk...

This chapter takes a high-level look at who the risk managers are, what they do, the roles they play, vertical and horizontal alignment of risk management and the qualities of a good risk manager. It identifies the risk managers in two broad categories of risk: production risk, which is borne and...

This chapter links the SPS Agreement (Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures) to the phytosanitary risk management process. This begins with an overview of the SPS Agreement that is followed by a reassessment of the Agreement in a risk management context. It concludes...

This chapter provides information on the opportunities that are presented to a variety of stakeholders by efficient and effective phytosanitary risk management. This chapter also speculates on and anticipates its future, because phytosanitary risk management provides a framework that offers...

This chapter addresses the degree of interaction between risk managers and risk assessors and some of the ways to improve the quality of phytosanitary risk analysis by increasing and improving the interactions between risk managers and risk assessors. A proposed risk management model focusing on...

This chapter provides a detailed description of the risk management model introduced as a proposed template for those national plant protection organizations (NPPOs) with a desire to update and improve their approach to risk management. The risk analysis framework identifies three stages of risk...

This chapter describes the remainder of the generic risk management model. It includes the tasks that coincide, conceptually, with Stage 3 of the pest risk assessment/analysis process, which is consists of the work most consistently recognized as the responsibility of the risk manager. The primary...

This chapter considers how risk managers ought to handle the uncertainty that accompanies the pest risk assessment/analysis process. It focuses on the role of decision-making in risk management decision-making. It proceeds with a brief review of some of the sources of uncertainty confronted in a...