NCGS Review Mandates

Pre-release. This site describes standard version 0.7.0-dev, which is in development and may change before version 1.0.0.

The kinds of review under NCGS. Validation judges a design or assessment before action; verification judges reported results against evidence; safeguard review judges a decision to withhold planting on ecological grounds.

Safeguard review

Review of a withheld-on-ecological-grounds determination: the photographs, the vegetation type, the intactness judgement and the reason, by a reviewer competent in grassland and wetland ecology who is not the assessor.

Validation

Review of a project design or site assessment against the standard’s data requirements and the applied methodologies’ applicability conditions, before action.

Verification

Review of reported observations against the validated design, the methodology’s monitoring requirement and the submitted evidence.

This page explains the standard and does not decide conformance: only the released corpus does. It describes vvr/review-requirements.ttl at standard version 0.7.0-dev.