Posted: December 19, 2008 |
European RiskBridge project final conference covers nanotechnology risks |
(Nanowerk News) The Project Partners of a recently completed European Commission FP6 funded
Project called RiskBridge will host
an international, interdisciplinary conference on risk governance and
policy learning within and across six important risk fields:
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stem cells
nanotechnology
radioactive waste
sediments
climate change and
electromagnetic fields
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The conference will be held at the Scotland House Conference Centre in the
heart of the political quarter of Brussels. There is no conference fee for
this event, so please register soon to guarantee your place.
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The main purposes of the conference are to disseminate key project findings
to academics, scientists and policymakers, and to generate
interdisciplinary debate. Over the past three years, the project partners
have brought a number of scientific experts and policymakers from the
various riskfields together through a series of workshops to consider the
principal risk issues associated with each field, criteria for good
governance and management of risk, methods to promote learning across risk
fields, and management of the science/policy interface.
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Practitioners within the various risk fields, scientists and social
scientists interested in general issues around risk governance of complex
technologies, and policymakers directly involved in risk management are
invited to attend. Individuals working in the commercial sector and
relevant NGOs will also find the conference programme directly pertinent to
their work in these areas.
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Key themes to be explored in the conference, through keynote talks, panel
discussions and thematic workshops, include:
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1. Risk governance processes in national and international contexts
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2. Risk management from academic, commercial and public-sector perspectives
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3. State of the art risk governance and major policy challenges for stem
cells, nanotechnology, radioactive waste, sediments, climate change and
electromagnetic fields.
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4. Policy learning across risk fields and implications for international
risk management.
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5. Transversal issues relevant to risk analysis: The role of systems
thinking and adaptive governance
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For enquiries/further information, please contact Dr James Mittra, [email protected] Tel: +44 131 6502453
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