Risk Management in Post-Trust Society

✍ Scribed by Ragnar E. Lofstedt

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Risk communication helps companies, governments and institutions minimize disputes, resolve issues, and anticipate problems before they result in an irreversible breakdown in communications. Most policy makers still use outdated methods--developed at a time before health scares like BSE, genetically modified organisms and dioxin in Belgian chicken feed eroded public confidence in industry and government--to communicate policies and achieve their objectives. Good risk communication is still possible, however. In this book, through the use of a host of case studies from four countries, the author identifies a series of methods that are set to work in a post-trust society.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 11
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 15
List of Abbreviations......Page 19
1 Introduction and Overview......Page 20
Why this line of inquiry?......Page 23
Trust......Page 25
The role of trust in risk management......Page 27
The conceptual ideas of this book......Page 29
The four regulatory 'ideal types'......Page 34
Public and stakeholder deliberation......Page 36
Technocracy and rational risk: symptoms of centralization......Page 40
History of risk management on strict economic grounds (development of rational risk policy)......Page 45
The remainder of this book......Page 51
Introduction: the regulatory context......Page 54
Background......Page 55
The role of the EU and the changing regulatory environment......Page 58
The North Black Forest case......Page 59
Views at the outset of the process (November 1995–January 1996)......Page 64
The citizen panels in action (January–June 1996)......Page 68
Outcome and directly afterwards (June–November 1996)......Page 72
Analysis of the risk factors......Page 73
Introduction......Page 78
History of the adversarial style of regulation......Page 79
Negotiated rule-making: the dams on the Androscoggin river......Page 84
Negotiated rule-making and the Androscoggin case......Page 90
Outcome of the process......Page 93
Analysis of the risk factors......Page 96
Sweden's overall risk management approach......Page 102
Historical background......Page 104
Adversarial as opposed to consensus decision-making......Page 105
Introduction to the Barsebäck case......Page 110
Analysis of the risk factors......Page 119
Introduction: the regulatory context......Page 122
Brent Spar......Page 130
Analysis......Page 136
Analysis of the risk factors......Page 141
Deliberation is not the be-all and end-all in solving risk management controversies......Page 144
The context of the decision-making process......Page 145
Behaviour of risk managers......Page 146
The risk management decision tree......Page 149
Final words......Page 152
Notes and References......Page 154
D......Page 178
G......Page 179
K......Page 180
P......Page 181
S......Page 182
U......Page 183
Z......Page 184