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IRGC Publications

Risk Governance
- Risk Governance - Towards an integrative approach (White Paper)
- An introduction to the IRGC risk governance framework
- Risk governance deficits (Concept Note)
- Risk governance deficits (Report)
- Risk governance deficits (Policy Brief)

Emerging risks
- Emerging risks - Sources, drivers and governance issues (Concept Note)

Air Quality
- The linkages between air quality and climate policies: governance deficits and challenges (Concept Note)

Bioenergy
- Governing the risks and opportunities of bioenergy (Concept Note)
- Risk governance guidelines for bioenergy policies (Policy Brief)
- Risk Governance guidelines for bioenergy policies (Executive Summary)

Carbon Capture and Storage
- Regulation of carbon capture and storage (Policy Brief)
- Power plant CO2 capture technologies (Concept Note)

Critical Infrastructure
- Managing and reducing social vulnerabilities from coupled critical infrastructures (White Paper)
- Managing and reducing social vulnerabilities from coupled critical infrastructures (Policy Brief)

Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology risk governance (White Paper)
- Nanotechnology risk governance (Policy Brief)
- Risk governance of nanotechnology applications in food and cosmetics (Report)
- Appropriate risk governance strategies for nanotechnology applications in food and cosmetics (Policy Brief)

Pollination Services
- Risk governance of pollination services (Concept Note)

Synthetic Biology
- Synthetic biology (Concept Note, 2008)
- Risk governance of synthetic biology (revised Concept Note, 2009)

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General
- IRGC Summary information
- 2008 Annual Report (pdf)
- 2008 Report of the external auditors and financial statements (pdf)


Journal Articles (External links)

- "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.
- "Risk governance guidelines for bioenergy policies” by Marie-Valentine Florin and Christopher Bunting in Journal of Cleaner Production (bioenergy), November 2008
- "Regulating the Geological Sequestration of CO2" , Wilson et al. in Environmental Science and Technology, 2008, 42 (8).
- "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
- Risk Governance of Pervasive Computing Technologies, by Piet Selke and Ortwin Renn, The International Journal of Technology, knowledge & Society, 2008


Books relevant to IRGC’s work (External links)
- Global Risk Governance - Concept and practice using the IRGC framework, edited by Ortwin Renn and Katherine Walker, IRGC Bookseries 1 published by Springer
- “Comparative Risk Assessment” by Holger Schütz, Peter M. Wiedemann, Wilfried Hennings, Johannes Mertens, Martin Clauberg
- "Know Risk" published by Tudor Rose