The Challenge of Integrating Deliberation and Expertise: Participation and Discourse in Risk Management

Renn, Ortwin

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511814662.009

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“…[38]). Renn distinguishes four risk categories, of which two are relevant to the activities of the organisations studied in this article: uncertain and ambiguous risks [39]. After designing the relevant risk discourse in a pre-assessment stage, different sets of players should be engaged in discourses on uncertain and ambiguous risks.…”

Section: Risk Governancementioning

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Nano-education from a European perspective: nano-training for non-R&D jobs

Malsch

2014

Nanotechnology Reviews

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This article presents results of a study on the need for nanotechnology education and training in a variety of organisations in Europe. The organisations are active in dialogue and communication, regulation, or promotion of science, technology and innovation (ST&I). These new data are presented in the framework of recent trends in European Union policies governing education in nanotechnology.Respondents from all areas expressed interest in learning about nanoscience, nanomaterials, nanorisk assessment, and legal and social aspects of nanotechnology, preferably in their mother tongue. Most organisations active in dialogue and communication and regulation tend to be interested in specific aspects of nanotechnology that enter their agenda for a short time, and then shift focus to other topics that may not be related to nanotechnology. Respondents in ST&I promotion either need only superficial knowledge about nanotechnology (for government policy makers) or very in-depth knowledge about new trends in nanotechnology and their societal and economic aspects.

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Section: Risk Governancementioning

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Nano-education from a European perspective: nano-training for non-R&D jobs

Malsch

2014

Nanotechnology Reviews

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“…To clarify this claim, we can look at some public participation methods that implicitly make this distinction. Methods such as consensus conference (Joss 2000;Einsiedel and Eastlick 2000;Oughton and Strand 2004), planning cell (Dienel 1978), cooperative discourse (Renn 1999(Renn , 2004) and citizen's jury (Crosby 2003;Huitema et al 2007) are based on the idea that participatory methods are a way to combine technical expertise and rational decision-making with public values and preferences (see e.g. Renn et al 1993).…”

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Diversity and constructive conflict in stakeholder dialogue: considerations for design and methods

2011

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Diversity is generally recognized as a key issue for learning in stakeholder dialogue on wicked sustainability issues. Yet the question on how design of stakeholder dialogue and supporting methods actually enhance learning in stakeholder dialogue deserves more attention. This paper presents constructive conflict as a central design issue for stakeholder dialogue. This means that a dialogue entails the articulation of a diversity of perspectives and the confrontation of claims and ideas based on these perspectives. Building on three properties of diversity (variety, balance and disparity), the methodological implications of constructive conflict as a central design issue will be derived. These implications are structured according to three design steps: stakeholder identification and selection, articulation of perspectives and confrontation of claims and ideas. It is argued that social scientific methods are needed to support design of stakeholder dialogue. Q methodology is presented as an example that was used in a stakeholder dialogue on sustainable biomass in the Netherlands to identify stakeholder perspectives, to select stakeholders and to structure the dialogue. The paper wraps up with conclusions on constructive conflict as a design issue.

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“…It has for some time been recognized that poverty reduction and disaster risk management needs to be integrated [14] and Riebsame [15] called for a new approach in development planning already in 1990. One category of flood research is concerned with detailed flood behavior, such as frequency, discharge, and ground elevation for estimating flood depth, flood elevation, and velocity [16,17].…”

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Coping with Complex Environmental and Societal Flood Risk Management Decisions: An Integrated Multi-criteria Framework

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During recent years, a great deal of attention has been focused on the financial risk management of natural disasters. One reason behind is that the economic losses from floods, windstorms, earthquakes and other disasters in both the developing and developed countries are escalating dramatically. It has become apparent that an integrated water resource management approach would be beneficial in order to take both the best interests of society and of the environment into consideration. One improvement consists of models capable of handling multiple criteria (conflicting objectives) as well as multiple stakeholders (conflicting interests). A systems approach is applied for coping with complex environmental and societal risk management decisions with respect to flood catastrophe policy formation, wherein the emphasis is on computer-based modeling and simulation techniques combined with methods for evaluating strategies where numerous stakeholders are incorporated in the process. The resulting framework consists of a simulation model, a decision analytical tool, and a set of suggested policy strategies for policy formulation. The framework will aid decision makers with high risk complex environmental decisions subject to significant uncertainties. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2011, 3 1358

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The Challenge of Integrating Deliberation and Expertise: Participation and Discourse in Risk Management

Cited by 65 publications

References 175 publications

Nano-education from a European perspective: nano-training for non-R&D jobs

Nano-education from a European perspective: nano-training for non-R&D jobs

Diversity and constructive conflict in stakeholder dialogue: considerations for design and methods

Coping with Complex Environmental and Societal Flood Risk Management Decisions: An Integrated Multi-criteria Framework

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