The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may...

Risk communication is an important component of disaster risk management (DRM) because it shapes people's perceptions of risk and influences their actions with respect to disaster preparedness and disaster response. It also influences the intervention decisions that are made throughout the...

In diesem Buch wird der aktuelle Stand der Diskussion zum erfolgreichen Umgang mit Risiken und Gefahren in der Tourismuswirtschaft aufgezeigt. Neben Naturgefahren, Terrorismus oder Unglücksfällen sind es zunehmend auch angebots- und nachfragegetriebene Strukturbrüche, die für...

We expect governments to protect citizens from the adverse consequences of hazardous events. At the same time it is not possible or necessarily in the best interest of citizens for all risks to be removed. A risk-based approach to the design and implementation of regulation can help to ensure...

1: Risk issues management -- Outside-in thinking -- Issues management defined -- Planning an issues management programme -- an issues management model -- CSR: the new moral code for doing business -- An issue ignored is a crisis ensured -- Implementing an issues management programme -- 2: Crisis...

Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...