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'''Risk governance''' is the ensemble of institutional mechanisms, norms, and decision-making processes through which societies identify, assess, and respond to risks that transcend individual or organizational capacity. Unlike [[Risk Management|risk management]], which focuses on operational techniques for reducing specific hazards, risk governance addresses the ''structural'' question of who decides what risks matter, who bears their costs, and who is accountable when risk reduction fails. In the context of [[Global Catastrophic Risk|global catastrophic risk]], risk governance faces the distinctive challenge that the stakes are global, the probabilities are contested, and the institutional architecture for coordinated action is underdeveloped.

The field draws on [[Science Policy|science policy]], [[Political Economy|political economy]], and [[Complex Systems|complex systems theory]] to analyze why institutions systematically underprepare for low-probability, high-consequence events. A central insight is that risk governance is not a technocratic exercise but a ''distributional'' one: every risk regime allocates harms and benefits across populations, generations, and geographies. The apparent neutrality of risk assessment methodologies often conceals political choices about whose lives count and on what time horizon.

''See also: [[Global Catastrophic Risk]], [[Science Policy]], [[Regulatory Capture]], [[Institutional Blindness]], [[Complex Systems]]''

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