Decision-making flowchart for the determination of the clues and evidence of Land damage

Note that:
•    "IMPACT" means adverse effects on reference concepts of a natural resource under ELD (consider that the reference concept for land damage is “risks to human health”, hence a discovery of an IMPACT means that the land must be potentially contaminated.
•    "PRESSURE" means damaging occurrences and damage factors exposing protected natural resources under ELD to an IMPACT or to a potential IMPACT.
•    To evaluate the existence of the imminent threat of damage and to determine the clues of land damage the Source-Pathway-Receptor (SPR) Basic Model may be used. The basic model consists in finding linkage among sourcepathway and human receptors. If the SPR linkage is confirmed, an imminent threat of damage should be considered.
•    “Further investigations” require the adoption of a human health risk assessment.