About the The International Risk Governance Council
IRGC Board Members
IRGC Scientific and Technical Council Members
Table of Contents
Foreword - A Business Perspective (Peter Sutherland)
Foreword - A Fresh Thinking for Risk Management Practitioners (Jan Mattingly)
Foreword - A Better Platform for Global Risk Debates (David Slavin)
Introduction - (Ortwin Renn and Katherine Walker)
Part 1: A Framework for Risk Governance
Chapter 1: Risk Governance: Toward an Integrated Framework (Ortwin Renn)
Part 2: A Framework for Risk Governance - Critical Reviews
Introduction
Chapter 2: A Framework for Risk Governance Revisited (Ragnar Lôfstedt)
Chapter 3: Enterprise Risk Management Perspectives on Risk Governance (Robin Cantor)
Chapter 4: Comments on the IRGC Framework for Risk Governance (Warner North)
Chapter 5: White, Black, and Gray: Critical Dialogue with the IRGC's Framework for Risk Governance (Eugene Rosa)
Chapter 6: Summary of Critical Remarks (Alexander Jager)
Part 3: A Framework for Risk Governance-Case Study Applications
Chapter 7: Genetically Modified Crops (Joyce Tait)
Chapter 8: Acrylamide Risk Governance in Germany (Sabine Bonneck)
Chapter 9: Listeria in Raw Milk Soft Cheese (Andrew J. Knight, Michelle R. Worosz, Leslie D. Bourquin, Craig K. Harris, Ewen C.D. Todd)
Chapter 10: Nagara River Estuary Barrage (Norio Okada, Hirokazu Tatano, Akiyoshi Takagi)
Chapter 11: Nature-Based Tourism (Jeffrey A. McNeely, Caroline Kuenzi)
Chapter 12: Energy Security for the Baltic Region (Warner North)
Chapter 13: Nanotechnology (Mihail Roco, Ortwin Renn, Alexander Jaeger)
Part 4: A Framework for Risk Governance: Lessons Learned
Chapter 14: Lessons Learned and a Way Forward (Ortwin Renn and Katherine Walker)

The establishment of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) was the direct result of widespread concern that the complexity and interdependence of health, environmental, and technological risks facing the world was making the development and implementation of adequate risk governance strategies ever more difficult. This volume details the IRGC developed and proposed framework for risk governance and covers how it was peer reviewed as well as tested