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  1. Coping with Complexity—A Systems Approach to Resilience
  2. Risk, Resilience and Precaution
  3. A Group Delphi on economic perspectives on climate policy measures. A basis for informing a Citizen Forum
  4. Die Ausblendung von Konflikten in transdisziplinärer Forschung: Viele Wege führen nach Rom. Reaktion auf B. Nölting et al. in GAIA 34/2 (2025): Wissenschaftsorganisationen als Impulsgeber einer Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
  5. Conclusions and Outlook
  6. Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
  7. Introduction
  8. Risk governance
  9. How sustainable is the digital world?
  10. Gratwanderung zwischen disziplinärer Expertise und partizipativer Politikberatung
  11. Quo vadis, Deutschland? Stand und Perspektiven der Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
  12. The crisis in Ukraine: another missed opportunity for building a more sustainable economic paradigm
  13. Will short-term behavior changes during the COVID-19 crisis evolve into low-carbon practices?
  14. Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung lehren und lernen: Workshop-Serie am Institut für transformative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
  15. Introduction to Special Series
  16. Thirty years of GAIA: a constant in a fast-changing world
  17. Das Comeback der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung in den USA
  18. Social Perception of Systemic Risks
  19. The opportunities and risks of digitalisation for sustainable development: a systemic perspective
  20. Prologue: The “Brave New World” of Social Sciences in Interdisciplinary Risk Research
  21. Systemic Risk: The Threat to Societal Diversity and Coherence
  22. Systemic Risks from Different Perspectives
  23. Bürgerbeteiligung in der Klimapolitik: Erfahrungen, Grenzen und Aussichten
  24. Beyond the Indicators: Improving Science, Scholarship, Policy and Practice to Meet the Complex Challenges of Sustainability
  25. Some foundational issues related to risk governance and different types of risks
  26. Interdisziplinärer Synthesebericht zum Kohleausstieg: ENavi informiert die Kohlekommission
  27. Die Rolle(n) transdisziplinärer Wissenschaft bei konfliktgeladenen Transformationsprozessen
  28. Participatory Risk Governance for Reducing Disaster and Societal Risks: Collaborative Knowledge Production and Implementation
  29. Risk Governance: Application to Urban Challenges
  30. Systemic Risks: A Homomorphic Approach on the Basis of Complexity Science
  31. Improving government policy on risk: Eight key principles
  32. Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table
  33. Comparative, collaborative, and integrative risk governance for emerging technologies
  34. Acceptability of geothermal installations: A geoethical concept for GeoLaB
  35. Two Types of Vigilance Are Essential to Effective Hazard Management: Maintaining Both Together Is Difficult
  36. Real-World Laboratories - the Road to Transdisciplinary Research?
  37. Catastrophic risks: How can we assess and manage them?
  38. Risk Governance
  39. Correction to: Towards Quantitatively Understanding the Complexity of Social-Ecological Systems—From Connection to Consilience
  40. Towards Quantitatively Understanding the Complexity of Social-Ecological Systems—From Connection to Consilience
  41. Ein Kompass für die Energiewende: Das Kopernikus-Projekt Energiewende-Navigationssystem (ENavi) ist gestartet
  42. Entscheidungshilfe: Transdisziplinäre Forschung trägt zum Gelingen der Energiewende bei
  43. Der transdisziplinäre Ansatz des Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS): Konzept und Umsetzung
  44. Coal, nuclear and renewable energy policies in Germany: From the 1950s to the “Energiewende”
  45. Public participation for infrastructure planning in the context of the German “Energiewende”
  46. A Risk Radar driven by Internet of intelligences serving for emergency management in community
  47. Quantum technology: from research to application
  48. Testing the value of public participation in Germany: Theory, operationalization and a case study on the evaluation of participation
  49. Systemic Risks: The New Kid on the Block
  50. Fünf Jahre integrative Forschung zur Energiewende: Erfahrungen und Einsichten
  51. Paris ‐ und was nun? Auf dem Weg zu verbindlichen Klimaschutzzielen
  52. Exploring smart grids with simulations in a mobile science exhibition
  53. Structured Frameworks to Increase the Transparency of the Assessment of Benefits and Risks of Medicines: Current Status and Possible Future Directions
  54. International Science and Technology Education
  55. Sea-level rise scenarios and coastal risk management
  56. Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance
  57. An Evaluation of the Treatment of Risk and Uncertainties in the IPCC Reports on Climate Change
  58. Expertise and experience: a deliberative system of a functional division of labor for post-normal risk governance
  59. Four questions for risk communication: a response to Roger Kasperson
  60. Risikokommunikation zu Arzneimitteln in Gewässern: Ein Balanceakt
  61. Public Perception of geoengineering and its consequences for public debate
  62. Changing the resilience paradigm
  63. Using participation to create resilience: how to involve citizens in designing a hospital system?
  64. Social risk screening using a socio-political ambiguity approach: the case of organic agriculture in Iran
  65. Comment on paper: the substitution principle by Ragnar Löfstedt
  66. Risk-based standards: integrating top–down and bottom–up approaches
  67. The Distinction Between Risk and Hazard: Understanding and Use in Stakeholder Communication
  68. Open Questions of the German Energiewende: Setup and Design of Capacity Management for the German Electricity MarketOffene Fragen der Energiewende: Aufbau und Design von Kapazitätsmärkten
  69. A framework for combining social impact assessment and risk assessment
  70. Special issue on risk management
  71. Benefit-risk trade-offs in retrospect: how major stakeholders perceive the decision-making process in the Barents Sea oil field development
  72. Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
  73. A Framework of Adaptive Risk Governance for Urban Planning
  74. Perception of technological risk: insights from research and lessons for risk communication and management
  75. Search for the ‘European way’ of taming the risks of new technologies: the EU research project iNTeg-Risk
  76. A Decision-Analysis Tool for Benefit-Risk Assessment of Nonprescription Drugs
  77. The Risk Perception Paradox-Implications for Governance and Communication of Natural Hazards
  78. Diamonds Are Forever – zum GAIA-JubiläumDiamonds Are Forever – GAIA's Jubilee
  79. On the Risk Management and Risk Governance of Petroleum Operations in the Barents Sea Area
  80. Adaptive and integrative governance on risk and uncertainty
  81. Nachhaltiger Umgang mit natürlichen Risiken: antizipativ, integrativ und interdisziplinär
  82. Improving the Decision-Making Process for Nonprescription Drugs: A Framework for Benefit–Risk Assessment
  83. Perspectives on social capacity building for natural hazards: outlining an emerging field of research and practice in Europe
  84. Can Participatory Modelling Support Social Learning in Marine Fisheries? Reflections from the Invest in Fish South West Project
  85. Participatory Approaches to Modelling for Improved Learning and Decision-making in Natural Resource Governance: an Editorial
  86. Rationales for Public Participation in Environmental Policy and Governance: Practitioners' Perspectives
  87. On the ontological status of the concept of risk
  88. A Comment to Ragnar Lofstedt
  89. Risk governance
  90. Coping with Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Risk Governance: A Synthesis
  91. The social amplification/attenuation of risk framework: application to climate change
  92. Including social impact assessment in food safety governance
  93. Potential methods and approaches to assess social impacts associated with food safety issues
  94. The SAFE FOODS framework for improved risk analysis of foods
  95. Communication about a communication technology
  96. Response to Professor Eugene Rosa’s viewpoint to our paper
  97. Concerned public and the paralysis of decision‐making: nuclear waste management policy in Germany
  98. Inclusive risk governance: concepts and application to environmental policy making
  99. The Role of Quantitative Risk Assessments for Characterizing Risk and Uncertainty and Delineating Appropriate Risk Management Options, with Special Emphasis on Terrorism Risk
  100. A normative-functional concept of sustainability and its indicators
  101. On risk defined as an event where the outcome is uncertain
  102. An ethical appraisal of hormesis: toward a rational discourse on the acceptability of risks and benefits
  103. Concepts of Risk: An Interdisciplinary Review – Part 2: Integrative Approaches
  104. Concepts of Risk: An Interdisciplinary Review Part 1: Disciplinary Risk Concepts
  105. Precaution and analysis: two sides of the same coin?
  106. Risk Communication – Consumers Between Information and Irritation1
  107. Precautionary Risk Regulation in European Governance
  108. Nanotechnology and the need for risk governance
  109. Participatory processes for designing environmental policies
  110. Responding Public Demand for Assurance of Genetically Modified Crops: Case from Japan
  111. Risk perception and communication: Lessons for the Food and Food Packaging Industry
  112. Perception of risks
  113. Perception of Risks
  114. Social assessment of waste energy utilization scenarios
  115. Acrylamide: Lessons for Risk Management and Communication
  116. Hormesis and risk communication
  117. Hormesis: implications for policy making and risk communication: a reply
  118. A New Approach to Risk Evaluation and Management: Risk‐Based, Precaution‐Based, and Discourse‐Based Strategies1
  119. The role of social science in environmental policy making: experiences and outlook
  120. The need for integration: risk policies require the input from experts, stakeholders and the public at large
  121. Introduction: Public understanding of genetic engineering
  122. Summary
  123. A Model for an Analytic−Deliberative Process in Risk Management
  124. Implications of the hormesis hypothesis for risk perception and communication
  125. How to Apply the Concept of Sustainability to a Region
  126. The role of risk perception for risk management
  127. Three decades of risk research: accomplishments and new challenges
  128. The Brent Spar Controversy: An Example of Risk Communication Gone Wrong
  129. A regional concept of qualitative growth and sustainability—support for a case study in the German State of Baden-Württemberg
  130. Public participation in impact assessment: A social learning perspective
  131. Eliciting and Classifying Concerns: A Methodological Critique
  132. Style of using scientific expertise: A comparative framework
  133. Incorporating Structural Models into Research on the Social Amplification of Risk: Implications for Theory Construction and Decision Making
  134. Public participation in decision making: A three-step procedure
  135. Risk communication: Towards a rational discourse with the public
  136. The Social Amplification of Risk: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications
  137. Doing the right thing in exporting hazardous technologies
  138. A novel approach to reducing uncertainty: The group Delphi
  139. Public responses to the chernobyl accident
  140. Risk Communication at the Community Level: European Lessons from the Seveso Directive
  141. The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework
  142. Structuring West Germany's energy objectives
  143. Decision analytic tools for resolving uncertainty in the energy debate
  144. Akzeptanzforschung: Technik in der gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung
  145. An empirical investigation of citizens' preferences among four energy scenarios
  146. Psychological and sociological approaches to study risk perception