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5 Conclusions
Pages 265-266

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... Ecological risk assessment can also contribute to strategic planning within and between federal agencies and to clarifying the ongoing public debate concerning national and international environmental priorities. • The four-part framework for health risk assessment (hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, risk characterization)
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... Most of them are now subjects of active scientific research: extrapolation across scales of time, space, and ecological organization; quantification of uncertainty; validation of predictive tools; and valuation, especially quantification, of nonuse values. • Technical guidance is needed on the scientific content of ecological risk assessments.
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