Effective risk governance for environmental policy making: a knowledge management perspective

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dc.contributor.authorMauelshagen, Craig William
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSchiller, Frank
dc.contributor.authorDenyer, David
dc.contributor.authorRocks, Sophie A.
dc.contributor.authorPollard, Simon J. T.
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-26T10:43:12Z
dc.date.available2016-10-26T10:43:12Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-24
dc.description.abstractEffective risk management within environmental policy making requires knowledge on natural, economic and social systems to be integrated; knowledge characterised by complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. We describe a case study in a (UK) central government department exploring how risk governance supports and hinders this challenging integration of knowledge. Forty-five semi-structured interviews were completed over a two year period. We found that lateral knowledge transfer between teams working on different policy areas was widely viewed as a key source of knowledge. However, the process of lateral knowledge transfer was predominantly informal and unsupported by risk governance structures. We argue this made decision quality vulnerable to a loss of knowledge through staff turnover, and time and resource pressures. Our conclusion is that the predominant form of risk governance framework, with its focus on centralised decision-making and vertical knowledge transfer is insufficient to support risk-based, environmental policy making. We discuss how risk governance can better support environmental policy makers through systematic knowledge management practices.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationCraig Mauelshagen, Mark Smith, Frank Schiller, David Denyer, Sophie Rocks, Simon Pollard, Effective risk governance for environmental policy making: a knowledge management perspective, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 41, August 2014, Pages 23-32en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1462-9011
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.04.014.
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10869
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
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dc.subjectEnvironmental policyen_UK
dc.subjectRisken_UK
dc.subjectEnterprise risk managementen_UK
dc.subjectKnowledge managementen_UK
dc.titleEffective risk governance for environmental policy making: a knowledge management perspectiveen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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