Welcome to the Workshop's Site
Organizer: Rona-Tas,
Akos,
Department
of Sociology, UC San Diego,
Met@risk,
INRA, Paris
An
international workshop to be held at UCSD on
May 14-15, 2010, on risk assessment paradigms and uncertainty
in policy
research. Bringing
together experts from
multiple fields, we will address some of the following questions:
- To what extent can risk assessment be standardized?
- To what extent are the abstract rules of rational decision making useful for each paradigm?
- To what extent are the abstract rules of policy making apply differently to different paradigms?
- Under what conditions can a paradigm developed in one risk domain be applied in others?
- To what extent can risk assessment be separated from risk management and risk communication and does that depend on the analytic paradigm?
- To what extent do analytic strategies of risk assessment depend on national institutions and culture?
- What are the main sources of uncertainty in each risk assessment paradigm?
- How does each paradigm treat uncertainty?
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