IRGC’s work is disseminated to a wide audience composed of policymakers in the public sector, decision makers in the private sector and any other institutions or people who can play a role in improving the science-policy interface and, in broader terms, risk governance.
IRGC publications are accessible from the section below, and if you wish to get paper copies, please fill in our online request form.
To know more about IRGC projects and publications, visit our Projects section.
Core Concept of Risk Governance
Risk Governance Framework
Risk Governance - Towards an integrative approach (White Paper) [PDF]
An introduction to the IRGC risk governance framework [PDF]
Global Risk Governance - Concept and practice using the IRGC framework, edited by Ortwin Renn and Katherine Walker, IRGC Bookseries 1 published by Springer
Risk Governance Deficits
Risk governance deficits (Concept Note) [PDF]
Risk governance deficits (Report) [PDF]
Risk governance deficits (Policy Brief) [PDF]
Risk Emergence
Emerging risks - Sources, drivers and governance issues (Concept Note) - [PDF]
The Emergence of Risks: Contributing Factors (Report) - [PDF] - Read more - Feedback form
Improving the Management of Emerging Risks (Concept Note) - [PDF]
Special reports
Bioenergy
Risk governance guidelines for bioenergy policies (Policy Brief) [PDF]
Risk Governance guidelines for bioenergy policies (Executive Summary) [PDF]
Carbon Capture and Storage
Regulation of carbon capture and storage (Policy Brief) [PDF]
Power plant CO2 capture technologies (Concept Note) [PDF]
Critical Infrastructure
Managing and reducing social vulnerabilities from coupled critical infrastructures (White Paper) [PDF]
Managing and reducing social vulnerabilities from coupled critical infrastructures (Policy Brief) [PDF]
Risk Governance of Maritime Global Critical Infrastructure (Report) [PDF]
Solar Radiation Management (Geoengineering)
Cooling the Earth Through Solar Radiation Management : the need for research and an approach to its governance (Opinion Piece) [PDF]
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology risk governance (White Paper) [PDF]
Nanotechnology risk governance (Policy Brief) [PDF]
Risk governance of nanotechnology applications in food and cosmetics (Report) - [PDF]
Appropriate risk governance strategies for nanotechnology applications in food and cosmetics (Policy Brief) [PDF]
Pollination Services
Risk governance of pollination services (Concept Note) [PDF]
Synthetic Biology
Risk governance of synthetic biology (revised Concept Note) [PDF]
Guidelines for the Appropriate Risk Governance of Synthetic Biology (Policy Brief) - [PDF] - Read more - Feedback form
General Information on IRGC
IRGC Summary Information [PDF]
IRGC Annual Report 2010 [PDF]
IRGC Related Articles and Publications
"Risk Governance by Governments" by Marie-Valentine Florin, in the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2011.
The 21st century has so far witnessed a host of large-scale disasters across the world including earthquakes, tsunamis, human and animal diseases, terrorist attacks, cyber attacks and major disruptions to critical infrastructures. Risk management must be central to a government’s planning as preparation, response, recovery and rehabilitation for disasters become increasingly necessary. IRGC’s views on how governments could consider the governance of disaster risks are presented in this article.
"Interpreting Risk in International Trade" by Belinda Cleeland and Bonnie Wintle, in the Journal of Risk Research, 2012. This article uses IRGC’s concept of Risk Governance Deficits applied to a case study on biosecurity risk analysis. The case study also examines the role of science and uncertainty in resolving trade disputes at the WTO.
"SWP-Working Paper on Risk Governance" (in German) published by the SWP, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Feburary 2012. In this working paper, the IRGC Risk Governance Framework is strongly referred to.
"Study on Risk Governance of European Critical Infrastructures in the ICT and Energy Sector", AEA report to the European Commission, 2009
"Critical infrastructures at risk : A need for a new conceptual approach and extended analytical tools" by Wolfgang Kröger in Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume 93, Issue 12, December 2008.
"The International Risk Governance Council, its approach to risk governance and how public policy could benefit from improved risk governance” by Christopher Bunting in Horizons, May 2009
Aven,T. ‘On Risk Governance Deficits’, Safety Science 49, no.6 (2011): 912-919
"Regulating the Geological Sequestration of CO2" , Wilson et al. in Environmental Science and Technology, 2008, 42 (8).
"Risk governance guidelines for bioenergy policies” by Marie-Valentine Florin and Christopher Bunting in Journal of Cleaner Production (bioenergy), November 2008
"Risk Governance of Pervasive Computing Technologies", by Piet Selke and Ortwin Renn, The International Journal of Technology, knowledge & Society, 2008 [PDF]
"State of the Art der Forschung zur Verwundbarkeit Kritischer Infrastrukturen am beispiel Strom/ Stromausfall, United Nations University, J. Birkmann, C. Bach, S. Guhl, et al., 2010" [PDF]