For the purpose of understanding the motivation and real life experience of how certain emerging issues have been or are being dealt with, six ‘case studies’ have been prepared, as illustrations of elements of success and failure of risk management by the public sector, in order to delineate future strategies:
- Combating the risk of antimicrobial resistance in animals for the benefit of human health in Denmark (Peter R. Wielinga & Jorgen Schlundt, National Food Institute, Danish Technical University) PDF (now published in Food Science, Vol 40, June 2014, 185–192: Evidence-based policy for controlling antimicrobial resistance in the food chain in Denmark)
- Risk governance of food supply chains (Kees Burger & Jeroen Warner, Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University)
- Managing the risk of aging infrastructure (Richard G. Little, The Price School of Public Policy, University of South California)
- Proactive and adaptive governance of emerging risks, the case of DNA synthesis and synthetic biology (Kenneth A. Oye, Political Science and Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Migration as a policy response to population ageing (George W. Leeson, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
- The interaction of social and economic risk (Darryl Jarvis, Johannes Loh, Tim Hilger, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore)
