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Risk governance
Rationale
This section presents our cross-cutting activities related to risk governance. The programme is focused on the question of how society perceives and deals with risks related to nuclear activities and radioactivity. It includes topics such as:
- Regulation and liability
- Risk assessment and risk management, including controlling and monitoring nuclear activities
- Organizational features such as safety culture
- Safeguards and non proliferation politics
- Transparency in decision making and the role of experts
- Risk perception and risk communication
The goal of the risk governance research track is to add social science approaches to 'help' the exact sciences and technology to address the complex problems that arise from interacting with the society. Activities within the risk governance programme are developed at two levels.
- Firstly, we have initiated, in close collaboration with national universities, a number of PhD projects that contribute to the scientific state-of-the art in the research domains relevant to the interface between nuclear technology and society.
- Secondly, we interact with nuclear experts both to gain insight in their practice and to encourage reflection on their expert culture and the implicit ethical choices they make, as well as to incorporate principles derived from a risk governance perspective.
Past, current and future activities
The following pages introduce past, current and future activities related to the above mentioned topics.
- Safety culture
- Legal Aspects and Liability
- Proliferation
- Ethics and expert culture
- Risk perception
- Communication in crisis management
- Barometer