Negotiated Risks International Talks on Hazardous Issues
This book fills a major gap in the risk literature, as it brings together two research strands: risks, to which IIASA's research programs have contributed significantly over the years, culminating in the Risk and Vulnerability Program, and international n
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Rudolf Avenhaus · Gunnar Sj¨ostedt (Eds.)
Negotiated Risks International Talks on Hazardous Issues
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Prof. Dr. Rudolf Avenhaus University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-92992-5
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Sj¨ostedt The Swedish Institute of International Affairs Drottning Kristinaa Voeg 37 S 10251 Stockholm Sweden [email protected]
e-ISBN 978-3-540-92993-2
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-92993-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009920198 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Springer is a part of Springer Science+BusinessMedia springer.com Published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 c International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg 2009 Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
Foreword
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) has had risk as a research topic on its agenda right from its inception in 1972. Risk has played a major role in the Energy Program, with research being carried out both in-house and in cooperation with other international institutions like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and national research centers. Research areas were primarily the evaluation of all possible risks within one category of energy supply like nuclear fission or fusion or fossil fuels and, even more important, the comparison of risks of different energy-supply strategies. Later on an independent program was started which still exists today under the name Risk and Vulnerability. There is a large amount of literature on risks to which IIASA’s research programs have contributed significantly over the years, and there is, of course, an abundance of published work on international negotiations, part of which is a result of the work of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program. There are, however, so far no studies on the combination of these two strands. Therefore, and as research on both topics is housed at IIASA, we are happy that our PIN Program has undertaken the difficult and important task of analyzing what the editors of this book have called negotiated risks. Throughout the book it i
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