Das Konzept der Risiko-Governance beschreibt einen integrierten Ansatz, wie mit Risiken - und dabei insbesondere mit komplexen, unsicheren oder kontrovers diskutierten Risiken - umgegangen werden kann. Dabei bezieht sich der Risiko-Governance Ansatz auf die Integration verschiedener, bislang...

This report develops a framework of social unrest within a complex understanding of systemic risk. The goal is to try to identify triggers (events that lead to social unrest) and drivers (causal roots) for the emergence of social unrest and, based on this functional analysis, to design policy...

Technische Innovationen der Digitalisierung führen zu gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen. Aus Sicht der Informatik liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der technischen Seite der Innovationen bzw. auf den rein wirtschaftlichen Aspekten gegenüber den Kunden. Seltener werden die Auswirkungen der entstehenden...

This book offers a detailed analysis and a set of carefully measured suggestions towards achieving greater integration of science, precaution, and public involvement in current arrangements for European food safety governance. The devised governance framework provides a distinctive system of...

Introduction: Concept of Risk -- Characteristics of Risks in the Modern World -- Risk Perspectives -- Risk Governance: An Overview -- Pre-assessment and Framing of Risk -- Risk Appraisal -- Risk Characterization and Evaluation -- Risk Management -- Risk Communication -- Stakeholder and Public...

This note provides a response to Professor Eugene Rosa's viewpoint to our paper <italic>On Risk Defined as an Event Where the Outcome is Uncertain</italic> published in this journal in January 2009. We argue that his summary of our work does not reflect what we are saying in the original paper. We restate that...

This study provides an analysis of risk-benefit communication and participation of the siting process for the Norwegian Goliat oil field development, within the context of a revised model of the International Risk Governance Council's framework. The main objective of the study is a retrospective...