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Think Tank ‘From Global to Local’ 2014

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Gérard Combe and Jack Kruf, board members of the international PRIMO Europe association, proposed the idea at their May 2013 meeting in Brussels to bring global developments to local governments through a think tank model.

Union des Dirigeants Territoriaux de l’Europe (UDITE), the foremost professional network for Chief Executives and senior managers in the public sector in Europe and Public Risk Management Organisation (PRIMO), the leading international network for the development of products and the dissemination of knowledge and strategic information for the public sector in Europe, joined forces to launch the Think Tank ‘From Global to Local’. It is considered a formal joint project between the two organisations. It was elaborated and applied in the first Think Tank, held in Amsterdam.

The first Think Tank in March 2014 was organised by Jack Kruf, in close cooperation with Eric Frank (director of PRIMO Nederland), and Ronny Frederickx (member of the Executive Committee of UDITE). He was accompanied by Marie Dequae (University of Gent), Ed Mallens (ISO 31000 expert and risk manager), and John O’Dea (president of PRIMO Malta). 

It was agreed that it would be a formal collaboration where content meets craftsmanship, and that global risks should be discussed from the perspective of local and regional governance.

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Public Governance

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Marjolein van Asselt and Ortwin Renn | 2011

The term ‘governance’ has been used in political science to describe the multitude of actors and processes that lead to collective binding decisions. The term ‘risk governance’ involves the translation of the substance and core principles of governance to the context of risk‐related decision‐making. Does it involve a major change on how risks are conceptualized, managed, and communicated, or it is just a new fashion?

In this paper, we aim to delineate the genesis and analytical scope of risk governance. In our view, risk governance pertains to the various ways in which many actors, individuals, and institutions, public and private, deal with risks surrounded by uncertainty, complexity, and/or ambiguity.

It emphasizes that not all risks are simple; they cannot be calculated as a function of probability and effect. It is more than a descriptive shorthand for a complex, interacting network in which collective binding decisions are taken around a particular set of societal issues.

The ambition is that risk governance provides a conceptual as well as normative basis for how to deal responsibly with uncertain, complex, and/or ambiguous risks in particular. We propose to synthesize the body of scholarly ideas and proposals on the governance of systemic risks in a set of principles: the communication and inclusion principle, the integration principle, and the reflection principle.

This set of principles should be read as a synthesis of what needs to be seriously considered in organizing structures and processes to govern risks.

Bibliography

Van Asselt, M., & Renn, O. (2011). Risk governance. Journal of Risk Research, 14(4), 431–449. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2011.553730

Risk

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The Policy Implications of Risk Compensation and Plural Rationalities

John Adams | 1995

Quote from prologue: “This book began as a collaborative venture with Michael Thompson. For over 15 years my research into risk, mainly on the road, was focused on the theory of “risk compensation”. This theory accords primacy in the explanation of accidents to the human propensity to take risks. The theory postulates that we all come equipped with “risk thermostats” and suggests that safety interventions that do not affect the setting of the thermostat are likely to be frustrated by behavioural responses that reassert the level of risk with which people were originally content. My research had noted that there were large variations in the settings of individual thermostats, but had little to say about why this should be so.

About ten years ago I read Michael’s article “Aesthetics of risk” (Thompson 1980), and about five years later met the man himself. His research into risk over the past 20 years has been central to the development of a perspective that has come to be known as “cultural theory” (Thompson et al. 1990). Risk, according to this perspective, is culturally constructed; where scientific fact falls short of certainty we are guided by assumption, inference and belief. In such circumstances the deterministic rationality of classical physics is replaced by a set of conditional, probabilistic rationalities.

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National Risk Register 2025

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HM Government, UK | 16 January 2025

The National Risk Register (NRR) is the external version of the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA), which is the government’s assessment of the most serious risks facing the UK. It provides the government’s updated assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of a broad range of risks that may directly affect the UK and its interests. 

The NRR is aimed at risk and resilience practitioners, including businesses and voluntary and community sector organisations. The NSRA now operates as a dynamic assessment process, with risks reassessed on a more regular basis to reflect the changing risk landscape. This version of the National Risk Register is the first to align with that dynamic process, drawing from the latest risk information available.

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Risico-regelreflex

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Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties |  mei 2011

Eén van de meest bediscussieerde en bestudeerde termen in Nederland is die van de risico-regelreflex. Deze discussie begon in 2009 en is eigenlijk nog steeds actueel. De genoemde reflex is “de neiging van de overheid om voortdurend risico’s te verminderen, al dan niet naar aanleiding van een incident en deze als vanzelfsprekende opgave aan te merken.” Herlezing geeft inzicht in de zoektocht, zeker politiek-bestuurlijk, naar het eigen hart van de democratie in Nederland.

Dit is de definitie binnen het door het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (2011) vastgestelde Programma Risico’s en Verantwoordelijkheden. De aanzet hiertoe ontstond eind 2009 waarbij de minister van BZK een algemene beschouwing toezegde over de rol en verantwoordelijkheid van de overheid bij het omgaan met (vooral fysieke) risico’s en incidenten.

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Illusory Risk Management

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Marinus de Pooter* | 2019

Risicomanagement wordt doorgaans vormgegeven als een separaat systeem. In dit artikel ga ik na in hoeverre deze conventionele benadering ontaardt in een illusoir geheel. Als alternatief bespreek ik de waardemanagementbenadering, die managementteams helpt om samen te werken bij het blijven creëren én beschermen van wat hun kernstakeholders waardevol vinden.

Marinus de Pooter

Op de jaarlijkse conferentie van IIA Singapore in oktober 2018 heb ik een presentatie gegeven over illusory risk management. Centraal in mijn verhaal stond het grote verschil tussen enerzijds risicomanagement a1s een apart systeem en anderzijds waardemanagement. Dat laatste richt zich op het ondersteunen van beslissers bij het afwegen van relevante kansen en bedreigingen.

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Flying start PRIMO Vlaanderen

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PRIMO Vlaanderen (2009) is preparing for a promotional campaign right after the summer period. We recently had a first presentation of PRIMO Vlaanderen during an AXA-hosted seminar on adequate prevention policy in our local administrations, compared to what already exists in several companies.

From left to right: Tom Wustenberghs, Ronny Frederickx, Luc Verhulst en Karl Vanderplaetse.

Although it doesn’t seem obvious to imply that political decision makers should think about preventive risk management (often referred to as a waste of time), this aspect might be valuable for developing the association in Flanders as a key information network on risk management.

The new association wants to highlight the importance of preventive risk management over existing crisis planning. Such a policy can only help improve the organisation’s quality (quality management) and reduce costs by diminishing risks.

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