Following the publication of our White Paper, “Risk Governance – Towards an Integrative Approach” in 2005 we have worked to test and confirm the IRGC risk governance framework’s practicability (e.g. applicability, robustness and explanatory power) by applying it to a number of different risk fields.
This work has largely been carried out by experts in each of the seven risk topics that were addressed:
The risk of listeria arising from the use of unpasteurised milk in cheese production (Ewen Todd, Andrew Knight and a team from the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center at Michigan State University)
The risks associated with nature-based tourism (Jeff McNeely, a member of the S&TC and the World Conservation Union’s Chief Scientist and Caroline Kuenzi, IRGC Secretariat)
The construction and impact of the Nagara River Estuary dam (Norio Okada (S&TC member) and Hirokazu Tatano from the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at the University of Kyoto)
Genetically modified crops (Joyce Tait, S&TC member and Director of the ESRC Innogen Centre at the University of Edinburgh)
The discovery and communication to the public in Germany of acrylamides in foods (Sabine Bonneck, Cologne)
Energy security for the Baltic region (Warner North, S&TC member, President of NorthWorks, Inc., Belmont, California and Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, California)
Nanotechnology risk governance (S&TC members Mihail Roco (National Science Foundation) and Ortwin Renn (University of Stuttgart) and Alexander Jäger (University of Stuttgart); this study was a summary of our nanotechnology project.
When we developed our risk governance framework we wanted to create a framework that offers both a comprehensive means of integrating risk identification, assessment, management and communication and which supports the analysis of an absence of or deficits in risk governance structures and processes. The test applications have satisfied us that the framework achieves its dual purpose
| Each of these case studies was included in the book : "Global Risk Governance: Concept and Practice using IRGC framework" and can be downloaded by clicking on the topic title above. Please note that these case studies are presented in their pre-final version and we apologise for any errors you may encounter in the text. |
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