The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeGovernance, Policy and International AffairsDepartment of Governance, Public Policy and Foresight
Policy analysis, regulatory impact assessment, implementation and learning
Risk-informed public policy covers how public policy on shared risks is analysed, designed, compared across jurisdictions and evaluated, and the institutional capacity it depends on.
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The discipline teaches the policy cycle, policy analysis and risk-informed design, regulatory impact assessment, policy coherence and cross-border policy, implementation gap analysis and policy evaluation and learning, with the precautionary principle as the rule for acting on incomplete evidence, under ISO 31000 and the OECD governance of critical risks recommendation. The faculty's policy timeline is its instrument: dated alert and event records per country, with the index and milestone columns empty until their sources have a row. A graduate can write a regulatory impact assessment, compare a policy across jurisdictions and evaluate an implementation against what it intended.
This area covers how public policy on shared risks is analysed, designed, compared across jurisdictions and evaluated, and the institutional capacity it depends on. It is taught in the department of Governance, Public Policy and Foresight, Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs, through 3 courses with it as primary discipline.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Policy evaluation and regulatory impact assessment.
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Courses with this as their primary discipline. Open courses link to the catalogue.
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger lab | Set forecast thresholds, pre-agreed actions and messages | 1 |
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 1 |
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