IRGC Related Publications

IRGC’s concepts and methods are widely cited and applied also in external publications. Below, you will find a selection of recent IRGC related articles and publications:

From 2017, more information on IRGC’s publications is available on the EPFL IRGC website.

2017

• Mazri, C. (2017). (Re) Defining Emerging Risks. Risk Analysis. DOI: 10.1111/risa.12759

2016

• Aven, T. and Cox, L. (2016). National and Global Risk Studies: How Can the Field of Risk Analysis Contribute?. Risk Analysis, 36(2), pp.186-190. DOI: 10.1111/risa.12584
  
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, (2016). Joint Risk Analysis. Manual.

• EEA (2016). Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar on emerging Systemic Risks. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency
  

• Renn, O. (2016). Systemic Risks: The New Kid on the Block. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 58(2), pp.26-36.
  

• Selby, S. and Jiwanji, M. (2016). RISK GOVERNANCE Building Blocks for Resilient Development in the Pacific. United Nations Development Programme.

• Lippert, T. (2016). NATO, Climate Change, and International Security. A risk Gouvernance Approach. Ph. D. Pardee Rand Graduate School.

2015

• Flage, R. and Aven, T. (2015). Emerging risk – Conceptual definition and a relation to black swan type of events. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 144, pp.61-67.
  
• Federal Office for the Environment, (2015). Systemic risks and environmental governance. Final report. Bern: dialog:umwelt GmbH,.
  
• EEA, (2015). Report of the Workshop on Risk Governance. Brussels: European Environment Agency.

2014

• Dreyer, M. & Renn, O. (2014). EFSA stakeholder and public involvement policy and practice: A risk governance perspective. In A. Alemanno & S. Gabbi (Eds.), Foundations of EU food law and policy (pp. 171-191). Dorchester: Ashgate.

• Dreyer, M. & Renn, O. (2014). EFSA’s involvement policy: Moving towards an analytic-deliberative process in EU food safety governance? In C. Holst (Ed.), Expertise and democracy (pp. 323-352). Oslo: University of Oslo Press.

• Florin, M.-V. (2014). Dealing with the challenge of evidence-based decision-making in situations of uncertainty and emergency. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 3, 303-308.

• Florin, M.-V., Xu, J. (2014). Risk governance: An overview of drivers and success factors. Input paper prepared for the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015.  GAR 2015

• Klinke, A. & Renn, O. (2014). Expertise and Experience: A deliberative system of a functional division of labor for post-normal risk governance. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 27(4).

• Lindoe, P. H., Baram, M. & Renn, O. (Eds.). (2014). Risk Governance of offshore oil and gas operations. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Müller-Grabherr, D., Florin, M.-V., Harris, B., Crilly, D., Gugic, G., Vegter, J. Slob, A., Borowski, I. & Brils, J. (2014). Integrated river basin management and risk governance. In J. Brils, W. Brack, D. Müller-Grabherr, P. Negrel & J. E. Vermaat (Eds.), Risk-informed management of European river basins (pp. 241-264). Heidelberg: Springer.

• Renn, O. (2014). Das Risikoparadox: Warum wir uns vor dem Falschen fürchten. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch.

• Renn, O. (2014). Stakeholder involvement in risk governance. London: Ark Publications.

• Renn, O. (2014). Emerging Risks: Methodology, classification and policy implications. Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, 4(3), 114-132.

• Renn, O. (2014). A generic model for risk governance: Concept and application to technological installations. In P. H. Lindoe, M. Baram & O. Renn (Eds.), Risk governance of offshore oil and gas operations (pp. 9-33). New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Renn, O. & Klinke, A. (2014). Risk governance and resilience: New approaches to cope with uncertainty and ambiguity. In U. Fra Paleo (Ed.), Risk governance: The articulation of hazard, politics and ecology (pp. 19-42). Heidelberg: Springer.

• Renn, O. & Dreyer, M. (2014). Risk Governance: Ein neues Steuerungsmodell  zur Bewältigung der Energiewende. In J. Ostheimer & M. Vogt (Eds.), Die Moral der Energiewende. Risikowahrnehmung im Wandel am Beispiel der Atomenergie (pp. 211-229). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

• Renn, O. & Klinke, A. (2014). Risk governance: Application to urban planning. ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 11(1), 5-19.

• Rosa, E. A., Renn, O. & McCright, A. M. (2014).  The Risk society revisited: Social theory and Governance. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

• Schweizer, P.-J. & Renn, O. (2014). IRGC projekt ‘A resource guide for developing and implementing science-based stakeholder involvement research: Policy, strategies, and practice’. In DIALOGIK (Ed.), Innovativ und partizipativ: Einblicke in die Arbeit von Dialogik (pp. 25-42). Stuttgart: Universität Stuttgart und DIALOGIK.

• Spruijt, P., Knol, A. B., Vasileiadou, E., Devilee, J., Lebret, E. & Petersen, A. C. (2014). Roles of scientists as policy advisers on complex issues: A literature review. Environmental Science & Policy, 40, 16–25.

• Wielinga, P. R., Jensen, V. F., Aarestrup, F. M. & Schlundt, J. (2014): Evidence-based policy for controlling antimicrobial resistance in the food chain in Denmark. Food Control, 40, 185 – 192.

2013

• Brass, E. P., Lofstedt, R. & Renn, O. (2013). A decision-analysis tool for benefit–risk assessment of nonprescription drugs. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 53(5), 475-482.

• Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund of the Ministry of the Environment, (2013). ICA-RUS report 2013. Redefining the Climate Change Issue from a Risk Management Perspective. Japan: ICA-RUS.

• Jovanovic, A. S. & Renn, O. (2013). Search for the ‘European way’ of taming the risks of new technologies: The EU research project iNTeg-Risk. Journal of Risk Research, 16(3-4), 271-274.

• Mahmoudi, H., Renn, O., Vanclay, F., Hoffmann, V., & Karami, E. (2013). A Framework for combining social impact assessment and risk assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 44, 1-8.

• Renn, O. & Klinke, A. (2013). Risk governance: Concept and application to institutional risk management. In A. Alemanno, F. den Butter, A. Nijsen & J. Torriti (Eds.), Better business regulation in a risk society (pp. 17-36). Heidelberg and New York: Springer.

• Renn, O. & Klinke, A. (2013). A framework of adaptive risk governance for urban planning. Sustainability, 5 , 2036-2059.

• Renn, O. & Klinke, A. (2013). Space matters! Impacts for risk governance. In D. Müller-Mahn (Ed.), The spatial dimension of risk: How geography shapes the emergence of riskscapes (pp. 1-21). Milton Park and New York: Routledge.

• Renn, O. & Benighaus, C. (2013). Perception of technological risk: Insights from research and lessons for risk communication and management. Journal of Risk Research, 16(3-4), 293-313.

• Renn, O., Grieger, K. D., Øien, K. & Andersen, H. B. (2013). Benefit-risk trade-offs in retrospect: How major stakeholders perceive the decisionmaking process in the barents sea oil field development. Journal of Risk Research, 16(9), 1163-1185.

• Sahliger, M. & Renn, O. (2013). Communication needs in a high risk Environment. In S. Hansen-Schirra & K. Maksymski (Eds.), Aviation communication: Between theory and practice (pp. 131-143). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

• Schmidt, K., Dressel, K. M., Niedrig, M., Mertens, M. Schüle, S. A. & Groschup, M. H. (2013). Public health and vector-borne diseases: A new concept for risk governance. Zoonoses Public Health, 60(8), 528-538.

• Wachinger, G., Begg, C., Renn, O. & Kuhlicke, C. (2013). The risk perception paradox: Implications for governance and communication of natural hazards. Risk Analysis, 33(6), 1049-1065.

2012

• Beisheim, M., Rudloff, B. & Ulmer, K. (2012). Risiko-Governance: Umgang mit globalen und vernetzten Risiken. SWP-Arbeitspapier. (pdf)

• Boholm, A., Corvellec, H. & Karlsson, M. (2012). The practice of risk governance: Lessons from the field. Journal of Risk Research, 15(1), 1-20.

• Florin, M.-V. (2012). IRGC’s approach to emerging risks. Journal of Risk Research, 16(3-4), 315-322.

• United Nations, (2012). Risk Management in Regulatory Frameworks: Towards a Better Management of Risks. New York and Geneva: United Nations.

• Wintle, B. C. & Cleeland, B. (2012). Interpreting risk in international trade. Journal of Risk Research, 15(3), 293-312.

2011

• Aven, T. (2011). On risk governance deficits. Safety Science, 49(6), 912-919.

• Brasse, E. P., Lofstedt R. & O. Renn (2011). Improving the decision-making process for non-prescription drugs: A framework for benefit-risk assessment. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 90(6), 791-803.

• Florin, M.-V. (2011). Risk governance by governments. The Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting, February 2011.

• Renn, O., Jovanovic, A. & Schröter, R. (2011). Social unrest. Report for the OECD project on “Future Global Shocks”.

• Todd, E. C. D. (2011).  The international risk governance council framework and its application to Listeria monocytogenes in soft cheese made from unpasteurised milk. Food Control, 22(9), 1513-1524.

2010 and older

• Bunting, C., Renn, O. & Florin, M.-V. (2007). Introduction to the IRGC risk
  governance Framework. The John Liner Review, 21(2), 7.

• Florin, M.-V. & Bunting, C. (2009). Risk Governance guidelines for bioenergy policies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(Supplement 1), S106-S108.

• Renn, O. & Roco, M. C. (2006). Nanotechnology and the need for risk governance. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 8(2), 153-191. (pdf)

• Renn, O. (2008). Concept of risk: An interdisciplinary review – Part 2: Integrative approaches. GAIA – Ecological perspective for Science and Society, 17(2), 196-204. (pdf)

• J. Birkmann, C. Bach, S.Ghul et al at the United Nations University, State of the Art der Forschung zur Verwundbarkeit Kritischer Infrastrukturen am Beispiel Strom/Stromausfall (in German) (2010)

• European Commission, Study on Risk Governance of European Critical Infrastructures in the ICT and Energy Sector, prepared for the European Commission by Risk Solutions, ESR Technologies and Dialogik (2009). This study applies the IRGC risk governance framework to risk governance in critical infrastructure. It is available here.

• R. Steen and T. Aven, Comparisons and Discussion of Different Integrated Approaches, Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol.1-4 (2009)

• AEA (international energy and environment company) for the European Commission (EC), Study on Risk Governance of European Critical Infrastructures in the ICT and Energy Sector (2009)

• Christopher Bunting, The International Risk Governance Council, its approach to risk governance and how public policy could benefit from improved risk governance, Horizons Canada (2009)

• Wolfgang Kroeger, Critical infrastructures at risk : A need for a new conceptual approach and extended analytical tools (2008)

• Piet Sellke and Ortwin Renn, Risk Governance of Pervasive Computing Technologies (2008)

• Wilson et al., Regulating the Geological Sequestration of CO2 (2008)

• Jiang Jiadong, Zhao Hanping, Huang Chongfu and al. at Beijing Normal University,  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, Advances in Intelligent System Research, Vol.2 (2007)