Understanding ‘anticipatory governance’

Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience

Anticipation is increasingly central to urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to the global economic crisis. Anticipatory practices are coming to the forefront of political, organizational, and citizens' society. Research into anticipation, however, has not kept pace with public demand for insights into anticipatory practices, their risks and uses. Where research exists, it is deeply...

Understanding IT Governance

Anticipatory Governance: Bioethical Expertise for Human/Animal Chimeras

The governance demands generated by the use of human/animal chimeras in scientific research offer both a challenge and an opportunity for the development of new forms of anticipatory governance through the novel application of bioethical expertise. Anticipatory governance can be seen to have three stages of development whereby bioethical experts move from a reactive to a proactive stance at the...

of SPICE : Deliberating Geoengineering as Anticipatory Research Governance ?

In the face of the growing threat from dangerous climate change some scientists and engineers are beginning to envision and research technologies for climate geoengineering, including techniques for solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal. As a quintessential emerging ‘upstream’ technology the human and environmental risks of geoengineering are highly uncertain, while the question...

Developing a framework for understanding Security Governance

With reported security incidents in organisations on the increase, effective Security Governance is expected to become a major issue in organisations. A research framework of Security Governance was created from a literature review into Corporate Governance, IT Governance, and Security Management. Reported in this paper is an initial case study based on this framework. The framework covers the ...