Projects
IRGC primarily meets its objectives through projects, the publication and communication of the results of this project work, and the organisation of conferences and workshops where attention is focused on specific risk issues and their governance. IRGC is deliberately inclusive and proactively works at an international level with experts and decision-makers from government, industry, intergovernmental organisations, academia and research institutions, NGOs and other backgrounds. This interactive dialogue between policy makers and other stakeholders can support a deeper understanding of the issues under discussion, promote the development of proposals for new risk governance approaches and allow for areas of agreement - and disagreement - to be identified and explored. These experts and decision-makers may be from within, or external to, the IRGC network. Project work is supervised by the Scientific and Technical Council, which controls scientific quality. It is undertaken mainly by the affiliates in the IRGC network, who may also engage external experts for their specific knowledge and insights, as required. Publications resulting from this project work are all subject to peer review and, once complete, they are communicated to an international audience, with recipients being selected based on their interest in the risk issue in question. IRGC also supports publication by its affiliated partners in scientific and management journals as well as new media.
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“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)