This tutorial explains how you can develop a fully probabilistic risk analysis even though there may be very little empirical data available on which to base the analysis. It compares the strengths and weakness of various approaches.
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The success with which risks are managed in society, in the world, depends on a complex system of risk governance. Not only does risk governance include what we traditionally define as ‘risk analysis’ and ‘risk management’ but it also includes of a range of decision makers, stakeholders, scientists and other experts, or members of the public and the roles they have on decisions throughout the process. Failures of risk governance can often be traced to failures to understand and respond to this ‘bigger picture’. In this workshop, we focus on a major challenge to successful risk governance – risk communication throughout the process.
The basic core of this workshop is formed by a broad conceptual framework for risk governance developed by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC), a private, non-profit foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. Their risk governance framework was designed to provide a more comprehensive characterisation of risk governance -- one that builds on foundations of risk analysis and risk management as embodied in many in existing frameworks --- and thereby to guide risk analysts and policy makers around common pitfalls that have been encountered before.
The workshop will be a combination of lecture and interactive case studies, including development of mock press conferences and other role-playing exercises, and feedback discussions. The cases studies will be draw from recent experiences of the two presenters on the governance of food safety. It is designed to help workshop participants think through the issues involved in dealing with risk communication both in the design of programs for the governance of new risks and when faced with a crisis.
Workshop attendees will be given copies of IRGC framework as well as case study materials.
This workshop is for anyone who works at the interface of risk analysis and policy. While the case studies are taken from food safety, they offer concrete lessons to risk analysts and managers in the public and private sectors on how to develop and integrate risk communication programs into the overall process of risk governance.
Ortwin Renn:
Ortwin Renn has been full professor and chair of Environmental Sociology of the State University in Stuttgart (Germany) since 1994 and, since 2003, has also been director of the nonprofit company Dialogik, a research institute for the investigation of communication and participation processes in environmental policy making. He has also been (1993-2003) a member (and from 1999-2003, chair) of the board of directors at the Center of Technology Assessment in Stuttgart. He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and is a member of the IRGC’s Scientific and Technical Council. He received the “Distinguished Achievement Award” from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2005. Renn serves on the Panel on “Pubic Participation in Environmental Policy Making” of the US-National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the Risk Communication Advisory Group of the European Food Safety Authority.
For more information:
http://www.dialogik-expert.de/en/dialogik/renn.htm
Ragnar Löftsted:
Ragnar E. Lofstedt is Professor of Risk Management and the Director of King’s Centre of Risk Management, King’s College, London, UK where he teaches and conducts research on risk communication and management. He is also an adjunct Professor at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis at Harvard School of Public Health, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Public Sector Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Dr. Lofstedt has conducted research in risk communication and management in such areas as renewable energy policy, transboundary environmental issues, telecommunications, biosafety, and the siting of building of incinerators, nuclear waste installations and railways. He is on the Society for Risk Analysis-Europe’s Executive Committee and is the previous chair of the Society for Risk Analysis’ Risk Communication Specialty Group. He also is the external chair of the European Food Safety Authority's risk communication advisory group. In December 2000, Dr. Lofstedt was the first non-American awarded the Chauncey Starr Award for exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by the Society for Risk Analysis.
For more information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/research/kcrm/people/academic/lofstedt/
About IRGC:
The International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) is an independent foundation established in 2003. IRGC’s focus and raison d’être is to help improve the anticipation and governance of global, systemic risks.
For more information: http://www.irgc.org/irgc/spip.php?page=irgc&id_rubrique=3
The registration fee is $300. Advance registration by November 9th is highly advised. You do not need to register for the Annual Meeting to attend the workshop. Registration will be handled by:
Secretariat sra@burkinc.com
Society for Risk Analysis www.sra.org
1313 Dolley Madison Boulevard, Suite 402
McLean, Virginia 22101 USA
Telephone 1-703-790-1745, Fax 1-703-790-2672
The event will be held 8:00 - 5:00 on Sunday, 9 December 2007, at
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The meeting room for the workshop has not yet been determined; check with the hotel concierge on Sunday morning for directions to the meeting room.
Reserve a room at the hotel before 21 November 2007 to obtain the SRA rate of $159 per night (single or double occupancy) plus 16.75% tax. Be sure to mention the Society for Risk Analysis to receive the SRA group rate. This rate is available for stays between 7 and 12 December 2007, subject to availability. Remember the cut off for this rate is 21 November 2007, or until the SRA room block is sold out. Reserve your room early. Cancellations must be made at least 48 hours in advance. You can make hotel reservations on line or by telephoning 1-210-223-1000 or (toll-free) 1-800-648-4462. See the hotel fact sheet for a description of the venue and directions.
The average high temperature in San Antonio in early December is 65 °F (18 °C) and the average low is 42 °F (5 °C). The hotel is next to San Antonio's beautiful River Walk (Paseo del Rio).
More information can be obtained from Christopher Bunting, Secretary General, IRGC Christopher.bunting@irgc.org
Society for Risk Analysis www.sra.org
Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting http://sra.org/events_2007_meeting.php
Hotel reservations http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/satrc-san-antonio-marriott-rivercenter/
Hotel fact sheet http://www.marriott.com/hotels/fact-sheet/travel/satrc-san-antonio-marriott-rivercenter/
Weather in San Antonio http://www.wunderground.com/US/TX/San_Antonio.html
San Antonio Visitors and Convention Bureau http://www.sanantoniocvb.com/
San Antonio River Walk (Paseo del Rio) http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/