Presentation of the EFSA's second scientific conference, held on 14-16 October 2015 in Milan, Italy. OPEN RISK ASSESSMENT: METHODS AND EXPERTISE

1. From ‘science in society’
to ‘science with society’?
Gerard de Vries
University of Amsterdam
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2. Three reasons for public
involvement in risk governance
• the markets ask for it
• science asks for it
• politics asks for it
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3. Three problems
• Does transparency really contribute to restoring
trust?
• The risk of corrupting science;
• Questions about political legitimacy.
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4. Nature
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Nature
Society

5. Nature
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Nature
Science

6. Nature
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Nature
Science
Politics Markets

7. Nature
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Nature
Science
Politics Markets

8. Pasteur
• “There are more of us
than we thought.”
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9. Bruno Latour
• The world is a collective of
human and nonhuman entities
that relate in many ways.
• In governing a collective, we
have to take both the human
and the nonhuman powers into
account.
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10. Governance: two questions
• Which human and nonhuman powers do we have to
take into account?
• How can we arrange these powers into order so that
they fit into an ordered, hopefully less problematic
way?
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11. Governance: four tasks
• Taking into order: perplexity and consultation
• Putting in order: hierarchization and institution
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12. The process of governing
a collective
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Taking into account Perplexity Consultation
Putting into order Institution Hierarchization

13. Skills and instruments
brought to the job
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Scientists

14. Skills and instruments
brought to the job
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Scientists
Politicians

15. g.h.devries@uva.nl
Thank you
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