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2. Risk Governance and Resilience: New Approaches to Cope with Uncertainty and Ambiguity

Authors : Ortwin Renn, Andreas Klinke

Published in: Risk Governance

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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This chapter will address the major functions of the risk governance process: Each of these stages is described in the light three aspects of resilience: adaptive management capability, coping capability, and participative pre-estimation, interdisciplinary risk estimation (including scientific risk assessment and concern assessment), risk characterization and risk evaluation, and risk management, including decision-making and implementation (based on the IRGC risk governance model) capability. Furthermore, the chapter expands this perspective by suggesting four different forms of public and stakeholder involvement for coping with the three aspects of resilience, including a strategy where all none of the three aspects matter. The chapter concludes with some general remarks about the relationship between governance and resilience.

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Metadata
Title
Risk Governance and Resilience: New Approaches to Cope with Uncertainty and Ambiguity
Authors
Ortwin Renn
Andreas Klinke
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Risk Governance

Print ISBN: 978-94-017-9327-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-017-9328-5

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9328-5_2