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Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation: large dams journey

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  • Ignacio Escuder-Bueno
  • Eric Halpin

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There is ample recognition of the risk inherent in our very existence and modes of social organization, with a reasonable expectation that implementing risk governance will result in enhanced resilience as a society. Despite this, risk governance is not a mainstream approach in the infrastructure sector, regardless of the increasing number of peer-reviewed published conceptualizations, mature procedures to support its application, or public calls to cope with systemic risks in our modern societies. This paper aims to offer a different view on the issue of risk governance, with focus in the analysis of the root causes of its relatively low degree of implementation in the infrastructure sector. We later analyze the impact of such essential causes, which we have grouped and labeled as the ontology, the concerns, the anathemas, and the forgotten, in the specific field of large dams. Finally, we describe the journey toward risk governance in the specific field of large dams, thus supporting the ultimate objective of this paper to facilitate an evidence-based approach to successful risk governance implementation within and outside the dam sector.

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  • Ignacio Escuder-Bueno & Eric Halpin, 2018. "Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation: large dams journey," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(11), pages 1313-1330, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:21:y:2018:i:11:p:1313-1330
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2016.1215345
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