**'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk
analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the
demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk
research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks
based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. The skill
with which he builds practical recommendations from solid science is
unprecedented.'**Thomas Dietz, Director, Environmental Science and
Policy Program, Michigan State University, USA
**'A masterpiece of new knowledge and wisdom with illustrative examples
of tested applications to realworld cases. The book is recommendable
also to interested students in different disciplines as a timely
textbook on 'risk beyond risk'.'**Norio Okada, Full Professor and
Director at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto
University, Japan
**'There are classic environmental works such as The Tragedy of the
Commons by Hardin, Risk Society by Beck, The Theory of Communicative
Action by Habermas, and the seminal volumes by Ostrom on governing the
commons. Renn's book fits right into this series of important milestones
of environmental studies.'**Jochen Jaeger, Professor at Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada
**'Risk Governance provides a valuable survey of the whole field of risk
and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society
actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.'**Jobst Conrad,
Senior Scientist, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany
**'Renn offers a remarkably fair-minded and systematic approach to
bringing together the diverse fields that have something to say about
'risk'. Risk Governance moves us along the path from the noisy,
formative stage of thinking about risk to one with a stronger empirical,
theoretical, and analytical foundation.'**Baruch Fischhoff, PhD, Howard
Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
'I cannot describe how impressed I am at the breadth and coherence of
Renn's career's work! Written with remarkable clarity and minimal
technical jargon... [this] should be required reading in risk
courses!' John Graham, former director of the Harvard Risk Center and
former deputy director of the Office of Budget and Management of the
Unites States Administration
This book, for the first time, brings together and updates the
groundbreaking work of renowned risk theorist and researcher Ortwin
Renn, integrating the major disciplinary concepts of risk in the social,
engineering and natural sciences. The book opens with the context of
risk handling before flowing through the core topics of assessment,
evaluation, perception, management and communication, culminating in a
look at the transition from risk management to risk governance and a
glimpse at a new understanding of risk in (post)modern societies.
