Risk. The probability of an event occurring and the consequences of the event occurring. That is how most of us would classify and compare risks in a scientific manner. Does it have to be like that or is there a different, or perhaps even a better way? Maybe there is. Ten years ago, Andreas Klinke and Ortwin Renn set out to do just that, in Precautionary principle and discursive strategies: classifying and managing risks. Here they developed an integral risk concept based on eight criteria for classifying and managing risk. A novel approach, but what happened to it?

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