Risk&Regulation Magazine

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Cover Risk&Regulation is the biannual magazine of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR). This online version of the printed magazine includes articles by leading scholars and practitioners that feature links to other relevant items, events, and publications produced by CARR.

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Contents of the latest edition

Editorial: Global threats and regulatory negotiations/solutions
CARR Director Bridget Hutter discusses the challenge of identifying and negotiating regulatory solutions in an age of global threats, contingencies and uncertainties.

Meet the Regulator
We talk to Dr Mike Weightman about regulation of the nuclear industry in the UK by the Nuclear Directorate of the Health and Safety Executive

CARR news
The latest news from CARR.

Risk-based regulation delivering for the environment
Catherine Wright, Head of Modern Regulation at the Environment Agency reflects upon its risk-based approach to environmental regulation

Security and Regulation: Information, risk and financial crime
Mike Power reviews the CARR panel debate on information security held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science

Global Warming: Constructing flood and insurance risks
Michael Huber discusses the difficulties of conceptualizing and measuring flood and insurance risks

Talking point: Responses to environmental risk
Paul Johnson, Andy Gouldson, Merlin Hyman and Andy Stirling discuss regulatory strategies for the reduction of carbon emissions as well as the risks of regulation, and the benefits or expected effects of target regimes

Environmental Risk from an Industry Perspective: Protecting the licence to operate
Neil Gunningham considers how companies perceive and respond to environmental risk through the notion of a business’s ‘licence to operate’

Environmental Crises and Disasters: Producing research that matters
Arjen Boin argues that failed responses to environmental risk have revealed the importance of understanding how states and societies manage catastrophic threats and events

CARR events
See the Events page on the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation web pages.

CARR seminars
Details of CARR’s Tuesday seminar series.
See the Events, Previous conferences/workshops and E-mail Sign Up pages on the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation web pages.

CARR in print
New publications by CARR members. See the Index of documents, reports and other publications on the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation web pages.

CARR people
CARR staff and their expertise. See Who's who on the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation web pages.

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