The concept of contributing factors was developed in collaboration with a number of experts who met at several workshops in 2009 and 2010. It followed a first Concept Note, to identify and explain the following elements related to emerging risks:
Sources of risks
- Natural sources
- Human sources
- Causal interactions between different sources
Drivers of risk
- Knowledge of emerging risks
- System complexity
- Social and cultural dynamics
- Degree of development, poverty and inequality
- Natural resources and the environment
- Competing interests, ideologies, values and religions
- Variability in susceptibility to risk
Governance issues
- Tackling complexity
- Dealing with tractable and deep uncertainty
- Governance of change and adapting institutions
- Organisation and authority
- Better agenda-setting
- Resolving conflicts