Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation
Large dams journey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12598656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ignacio Escuder‐Bueno (0000-0002-3929-4216, Universitat Politècnica de València, corresponding author), Eric Halpin (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1313-1330 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Risk Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-9877 • E-ISSN: 1466-4461 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13669877.2016.1215345 |
| OpenAlex | W2487827722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
There is ample recognition of the risk inherent in our very existence and modes of social organization, with a reasonable expectation that implementing risk governance will result in enhanced resilience as a society. Despite this, risk governance is not a mainstream approach in the infrastructure sector, regardless of the increasing number of peer-reviewed published conceptualizations, mature procedures to support its application, or public calls to cope with systemic risks in our modern societies. This paper aims to offer a different view on the issue of risk governance, with focus in the analysis of the root causes of its relatively low degree of implementation in the infrastructure sector. We later analyze the impact of such essential causes, which we have grouped and labeled as the ontology, the concerns, the anathemas, and the forgotten, in the specific field of large dams. Finally, we describe the journey toward risk governance in the specific field of large dams, thus supporting the ultimate objective of this paper to facilitate an evidence-based approach to successful risk governance implementation within and outside the dam sector
Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Field (mathematics · Mainstream · Political science · Public relations · Public sector · Resilience (materials science · Risk analysis (engineering · Risk Governance · Risk management · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Risk Perception and Management · Finance
Global Risk Governance
The risk concept—historical and recent development trends
Misconceptions of Risk
Response to Professor Eugene Rosa’s viewpoint to our paper
Wrestling with uncertain risks
Judicious management of uncertain risks
Taming uncertainty
Risk communication guidelines for Europe
The logical status of risk – to burnish or to dull
The practice of risk governance
Precaution, Science and Jurisprudence
Coping with Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Risk Governance
When risk‐based regulation aims low
Risk governance
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |