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Concept Note
Emerging risks
Sources, drivers andgovernance issues
Phase 1 of the IRGC project on: Developing guidance for people and organisations to improve their own detection of emerging risks, mainly by looking at how and why risks emerge.
This paper draws on discussions at a roundtable on 8-9 June 2009
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Abbreviations used in the text:
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromeCFC ChlorofluorocarbonCO2 Carbon DioxideEFSA European Food Safety AuthorityENISA European Network and Information Security AgencyEPA Environmental Protection Agency (US)EU European UnionGAO Government Accountability Office (US)HIV Human Immunodeficiency VirusIRGC International Risk Governance CouncilISO International Organization for StandardizationMRSA Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus Aureus
NGO Non-Governmental OrganisationNRC National Research Council (US)OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopmentSARS Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeSONAR Systematic Observations of Notions Associated withRiskUK United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUS United States of America © All rights reserved, International Risk Governance Council, Geneva, 2009ISBN 978-2-9700672-1-4
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Preface
IRGC is an independent organisation whose purpose is to help theunderstanding and governance of emerging global risks that have impacts onhuman health and safety, the environment, the economy and society at large.IRGC believes that important opportunities for social and economicdevelopment may be foregone through inadequate risk governance.IRGC’s mission includes developing concepts of risk governance, anticipatingmajor risk issues, and providing risk governance recommendations for keydecision-makers.At the core of IRGC’s work programme is the concept and practice of riskgovernance, and central to this is the IRGC risk governance framework. Theframework was developed precisely to provide a structure for combining theconventional practices of risk assessment, management and communicationwith the principles of good governance. The framework includes severalinnovations described fully in IRGC’s White Paper No1 “Risk Governance – Towards an Integrative Approach”, published in 2005.More recently, IRGC has endeavoured to identify commonly recurring “deficits”in risk governance. IRGC’s report on Risk Governance Deficits is designed tofoster better understanding of their causes and how they can be prevented ormitigated through improved assessment and management. The IRGC projecton risk governance deficits is an entry point to the current IRGC project onemerging risks.As with all IRGC concept notes, this document has the purpose of providing abrief summary of some of the issues that will be addressed in the course offuture project. Comments are welcome on how this IRGC project can make aconstructive contribution.More information on the project can be obtained from Marie Valentine Florin atmarie.florin@irgc.org
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Emerging risks
Sources, drivers and
governance issues
Phase 1 of the IRGC project on:
Developing guidance for people and organisations
to improve their own detection of emerging risks,
mainly by looking at how and why risks emerge.
This paper draws on discussions at a roundtable on 8-9 June
2009
Sources, drivers and
governance issues
Phase 1 of the IRGC project on:
Developing guidance for people and organisations
to improve their own detection of emerging risks,
mainly by looking at how and why risks emerge.
This paper draws on discussions at a roundtable on 8-9 June
2009
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