Risk management
Focus
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OECD EVENT: Risk Governance and Resilient Cities (16 March 2015)
Officials from central governments and cities will gather in Sendai, Japan to look at the governance of risk and how cities should build resilience to major risks.
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OECD Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade
The OECD Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade (TF-CIT) co-ordinates international expertise in the quantification and mapping of illicit markets.
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Governance of Critical Risks
Recommendation proposes a fundamental shift in risk governance towards a whole of society effort.
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Risk management analyses the latest public policies, tools and practices of governments to address major risks. Through the sharing of country experiences, analyses are developed to draw-out criteria for the effective governance of large scale hazards and threats.
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Recent global shocks, such as the 2008 financial crisis, have driven policy makers and industry strategists to re-examine how to prepare for and respond to events that can begin locally and propagate around the world with devastating effects on society and the economy. The report looks at examples of hazards and threats that emerge from the financial world, cyberspace, biological systems and even the solar system, to reflect on what strategic capacities are called for to improve assessment, mapping, modelling, response and resilience to such large scale risks. |
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World economy highly exposed to natural and man-made disasters
Jack Radisch, Risk Policy Analyst, OECD |