IRGC has done extensive, in-depth work on various special issues, and has published a wide variety of papers, concept notes, policy briefs, and reports related to them. A complete list of these publications by subject area is given below (in alphabetical order, direct access to pdf):
Air Quality
- The Linkages Between Air Quality and Climate Policies: Governance Deficits and Challenges (Concept Note, 2008)
Autonomous Cars
- Risk and Opportunities Governance of Autonomous Cars (Background paper, 2016)
Bioenergy
- Risk Governance Guidelines for Bioenergy Policies (Executive Summary, 2008)
- Risk Governance Guidelines for Bioenergy Policies (Policy Brief, 2008)
- Governing the Risks and Opportunities of Bioenergy (Concept Note, 2007)
Carbon Capture and Storage
- Power Plant CO2 Capture Technologies (Concept Note, 2009)
- Regulation of Carbon Capture and Storage (Policy Brief, 2008)
Climate engineering
- Cooling the Earth Through Solar Radiation Management: The Need for Research and an Approach to its Governance (Opinion Piece, 2010)
- International governance issues on climate engineering (Report, 2020)
Critical Infrastructure
- Critical infrastructure resilience – Lessons from insurance (Policy brief, 2019)
- Risk Governance of Maritime Global Critical Infrastructure (Report, 2011)
- Managing and Reducing Social Vulnerabilities from Coupled Critical Infrastructures (Policy Brief, 2007)
- Managing and Reducing Social Vulnerabilities from Coupled Critical Infrastructures (White Paper, 2006)
Digitalisation
- Governing, opportunities and risks of digital currencies (Workshop highlights, 2022)
- Governance Of and By digital technology – conference proceedings (Conference proceedings, 2020)
- Forged authenticity: governing deepfake risks (Policy brief, Slide presentation ,2019)
- The governance of decision-making algorithms (Workshop report, Presentation slides, 2018)
- Governing Risks and Benefits of Distributed Ledger Technology Applications (Workshop highlights, 2017)
- Governing cybersecurity risks and benefits of the internet of things: Connected medical and health devices and connected vehicles (Workshop report, Workshop highlights, 2017)
- Cyber Security Risk Governance (Workshop Report, 2016)
- Public Cybersecurity and Rationalizing Information Sharing (Opinion Piece, 2016)
- Comparing methods for terrorism risk assessment with methods in cyber security (Workshop Report, 2015)
Energy Efficiency
Energy Transitions
- Assessment of Future Energy Demand: A Methodological Review Providing Guidance to Developers and Users of Energy Models and Scenarios (Concept Note, 2015)
- Demand-Side Flexibility for Energy Transitions: Ensuring the Competitive Development of Demand Response Options (Report, 2016)
- Demand-Side Flexibility for Energy Transitions: Policy Recommendations for Developing Demand Response (Policy Brief, 2016)
- Risk governance and the low-carbon transition (Policy Brief, 2021)
- Low-carbon transition risk (spotlight on risk, 2020)
Nanotechnology
- Appropriate Risk Governance Strategies for Nanotechnology Applications in Food and Cosmetics (Policy Brief, 2009)
- Risk Governance of Nanotechnology Applications in Food and Cosmetics (Report, 2008)
- Nanotechnology Risk Governance (Policy Brief, 2007)
- Nanotechnology Risk Governance (White Paper, 2006)
Nuclear Energy
- Preserving the Nuclear Option: Overcoming the Institutional Challenges Facing Small Modular Reactors (Opinion Piece, 2015)
Pollination Services
- Risk Governance of Pollination Services (Concept Note, 2009) (pdf)
Precision Medicine
- The Economics of Precision Medicine (Workshop report, 2018)
- Governance of Trust in Precision Medicine (Workshop Report, 2018)
- Roadmap for Precision Medicine (Policy Brief, 2017)
- Collection, Access and Use of Human Genetic Information for Precision Medicines: Risk Governance Considerations (Workshop Report, 2016) (pdf)
Social Media and Crisis Communication
- Addressing the Challenges of Using Social Media to Improve Crisis Communication and Management (Concept Note, 2012)
Space Debris
- Policy options to address collision risk from space debris (policy brief / Presentation slides, 2021)
- Collision risk from space debris: Current status, challenges and response strategies (Report / Presentation slides, 2021)
Synthetic Biology
- Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (Book, 2019)
- Security for emerging synthetic biology and biotechnology threats (Workshop proceedings, 2019)
- Guidelines for the Appropriate Risk Governance of Synthetic Biology (Policy Brief, 2010)
- Risk Governance of Synthetic Biology (revised Concept Note, 2009)
Unconventional Gas Development (shale gas)
- Risk Governance Guidelines for Unconventional Gas Development (Policy Brief, 2014)
- Risk Governance Guidelines for Unconventional Gas Development (Report, 2014)