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...