Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance

Ortwin Renn

doi:10.1007/s13753-015-0037-6

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Ortwin Renn. Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015, 6(1): 8-20. doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0037-6

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Ortwin Renn. Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015, 6(1): 8-20. doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0037-6

Ortwin Renn. Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015, 6(1): 8-20. doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0037-6

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Ortwin Renn. Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015, 6(1): 8-20. doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0037-6

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Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance

doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0037-6

Ortwin Renn^,

Economic and Social Sciences Department and Stuttgart Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies, University of Stuttgart, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Abstract

Stakeholder involvement has been a major requirement for effective, efficient, and fair risk governance. Since risk management includes uncertain outcomes that affect different parts of the population to different degrees it is essential to integrate the knowledge, values, and interests of stakeholders into the risk policy making process. The article provides insights into how to structure and organize stakeholder participation and how to cope with the challenges of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity. For each of the three challenges there is a need for specific input from stakeholders. The article describes these requirements and explains the formats that have been tested for providing this input to the risk governance process.
- Participatory formats,
- Public participation,
- Risk governance,
- Stakeholder involvement

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