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  title info:
    title: Global Risk Governance
    sub title: Concept and Practice Using the IRGC Framework
  name:
    name part: Renn, Ortwin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Walker, Katherine D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXX, 370 p. online resource.
  abstract: Global risks, global opportunities, global risk governance challenges. Global risks are not confined to national borders; they cannot be managed through the actions of a single sector. The governance of global, systemic risks requires an integrative approach involving governments, intergovernmental organizations, industry, academia and civil society. Risk accompanies change. It is a permanent and important part of life and the willingness and capacity to take and accept risk is crucial for achieving economic development and introducing new technologies. Many risks, and in particular those arising from emerging technologies, are accompanied by potential benefits and opportunities. The challenge of better risk governance lies here: to enable societies to benefit from change while minimizing the negative consequences of the associated risks. The International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) is an independent organisation whose purpose is to help the understanding and management of emerging global risks that have impacts on human health and safety, the environment, the economy and society at large. IRGC’s work includes developing concepts of risk governance, anticipating major risk issues and providing risk governance policy recommendations for key decision makers. IRGC believes that improvements in risk governance are essential if optimal risk-related decisions are to be made and to maximise trust in the processes and structures by which they are made. This book, Global Risk Governance: Concept and Practice Using the IRGC Framework, presents IRGC’s innovative risk governance framework, the careful reviews it received from internationally recognized scientists, and the results of several case studies in which the framework has been applied to a number of significant but different risks. The IRGC’s framework provides a structure for how particular risks may be investigated, communicated and managed by taking into account not only scientific evidence but also risk percepti…
  table of contents: A Framework For Risk Governance -- White Paper on Risk Governance: Toward an Integrative Framework -- A Framework For Risk Governance: Critical Reviews -- A Framework for Risk Governance Revisited -- Enterprise Risk Management Perspectives on Risk Governance -- Comments on the IRGC Framework for Risk Governance -- White, Black, and Gray: Critical Dialogue with the International Risk Governance Council's Framework for Risk Governance -- Synopsis of Critical Comments on the IRGC Risk Governance Framework -- A Framework For Risk Governance: Case Study Applications -- Risk Governance of Genetically Modified Crops – European and American Perspectives -- Nature-Based Tourism -- Listeria in Raw Milk Soft Cheese: A Case Study of Risk Governance in the United States Using the IRGC Framework -- Nagara River Estuary Barrage Conflict -- Acrylamide Risk Governance in Germany -- Energy Security for the Baltic Region -- Nanotechnology Risk Governance -- A Framework For Risk Governance: Lessons Learned -- Lessons Learned: A Re-Assessment of the IRGC Framework on Risk Governance.
  note: edited by Ortwin Renn, Katherine D. Walker.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Reliability
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  classification: TA169.7
  classification: T55-T55.3
  classification: TA403.6
  classification: 658.56
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Risk Governance Council Bookseries, 1
  identifier: 9781402067990
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6799-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204150445.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-6799-0