In addition to in-depth work on specific risk issues, IRGC produces snapshots of specific issues which have drawn IRGC’s attention. These short papers serve as illustrations of certain aspects of IRGC’s methods and tools.
Risk Governance Framework
- Ewen Todd, Andrew Knight, and a team from the Michigan State University, The Risk of Listeria Arising from the Use of Unpasteurized Milk in Cheese Production (pdf)
- Joyce Tait, Genetically Modified Crops (pdf)
- Jeff McNeely and Caroline Kuenzi, The Risks Associated with Nature-Based Tourism (pdf)
- Norio Okada and Hirokazu Tatano, The Construction and Impact of the Nagara River Estuary Dam (pdf)
- Sabine Bonneck, The Discovery and Communication to the Public in Germany of Acrylamides in Foods (pdf)
- Warner North, Energy Security for the Baltic Region (pdf)
- Mihail Roco, Ortwin Renn, and Alexander Jäger, Nanotechnology Risk Governance (pdf)
Risk Governance Deficits
- Marie-Valentine Florin, Jianhua Xu, Risk governance: An Overview of Drivers and Success Factors, for the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015.
- Belinda Cleeland, The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Epidemic in the United Kingdom (pdf)
- Leeka Kheifets, John Swanson and Shaiela Kandel, A Case Study on Risk Governance of Electromagnetic Fields: Mobile Phones and Power Lines (pdf)
- Kjellrun Hiis Hauge, Belinda Cleeland, and Douglas Clyde Wilson, Fisheries Depletion and Collapse (pdf)
- Joyce Tait, Risk Governance of Genetically Modified Crops in Europe: Decision nodes and incubation periods in generating a risk governance deficit (pdf)
- Donald Moynihan, The Response to Hurricane Katrina (pdf)
Contributing Factors to Risk Emergence
- Harvey Fineberg and Mary Wilson, Emerging infectious diseases (pdf)
- Jeffrey McNeely, Ecosystem services (pdf)
- Michel Maila, International Financial Markets (pdf)
- Dirk Helbing, Systemic Risks in Society and Economics (pdf)
- Wolfgang Kröger, Large Scale Engineered Systems (pdf)
- IRGC Secretariat, The Obesity Epidemic (pdf)
- IRGC Secretariat, Emerging Food Safety Risks: Melamine-Tainted Milk in China (pdf)
- IRGC Secretariat, Counterfeit Prescription Drugs (pdf)
- IRGC Secretariat, Emerging Risks in Megacities (pdf)
- IRGC Secretariat, Severe Space Weather Solar Storms (pdf)
- IRGC Secretariat, Sea-Level Rise (pdf)
Improving Anticipation of and Early Response to Emerging Risks
- Peter Wielinga and Jorgen Schlundt, Combating the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals for the Benefit of Human Health in Denmark (pdf)
- Kees Burger and Jeroen Warner, Risk Governance of Food Supply Chains (pdf)
- Richard G. Little, Managing the Risk of Aging Infrastructure (pdf)
- Kenneth A. Oye, Proactive and Adaptive Governance of Emerging Risks: The Case of DNA Synthesis and Synthetic Biology (pdf)
- George W. Leeson, Migration as a Policy Response to Population Ageing (pdf)
- Darryl Jarvis, Johannes Loh and Tim Hilger, The Interaction of Social and Economic Risk (pdf)
Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies
- Rainer Sachs, Risk governance of emerging technologies: Learning from the past (Rainer Sachs)
- Jennifer Kuzma, Gene drives: Environmental impacts, sustainability, and governance
- Steffen F. Hansen and Freja Paulsen, Smart materials and safe and sustainable-by-design — a feasibility and policy analysis
- Christian Moretti, Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies applications using bio-based residues
- Andrea Vezzini and Priscilla Caliandro, Lithium-ion batteries for energy and mobility: Ensuring the environmental sustainability of current plans
- Romain Buchs, Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging space technologies
- Benjamin Sovacool and Chad M. Baum, Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies for carbon dioxide removal
- Christian Schwab and Marine Boursier, Is cultured meat environmentally sustainable?
- Stefano Cucurachi and Carlos Felipe Blanco, Practical solutions for ex-ante LCA illustrated by emerging PV technologies
- Thomas P. Seager, Anticipatory life cycle assessment for environmental innovation
- Lucas Bergkamp, Liability’s role in managing potential risks of environmental impacts of emerging technologies