RISK newsletter:
Reports from Eastern Europe

Source: The Society for Risk Analysis' RISK newsletter, Second Quarter 1995

Several attendees of the 1994 SRA Annual Meeting from Eastern Europe reported on Society for Risk Analysis activities in their countries.

Karel Blaha of the Czech Republic said approximately 15 persons have adapted the SRA bylaws to their own chapter and have developed a cooperative program with a Czech group of environmental scientists, which will include a national meeting in September 1995. The main topics will be a post-graduate risk assessment curriculum and research programs, the latter in response to a request from the Ministry of Environment for assistance in the peer review of grants. (Contact: Karel Blaha, Prague, telephone (42) 2 67311 467, e-mail blaha@earn.cvut.cz, fax (42) 2 67311 236.)

Naoum I. Borodianskii said the Ukraine Kiev Chapter, which has 112 members from eight cities, conducts monthly workshops at Solomon University or the Institute of Cybernetics. The chapter will have a national conference in Kiev in November 1995 with a focus on the influence of environmental factors on health risks. The chapter officers are Vladimir Michalevich, president; Andrei Serdyuk, vice-president; Borodianskii, secretary-treasurer; and Boris Prister, councilor. Serdyuk chairs the 1995 program committee, which also includes Alexando Rozenfeld and Borodianskii. (Contact: Naoum Borodianskii, Kiev, telephone (7) 044 228 7212, fax (7) 044 224 3026.)

Vitaly Eremenko of Russia, organizing chairman of SRA of the Russian Federation, gave an overview of risk analysis work in Russia. Others reporting on activities of some of the country's 10 SRA chapters, most of which focus on specific geographic risks, included Victor G. Krymsky, Sergei G. Mironyok, Anatoli Merzliakov, and Oksana Shilova. (Contact: Vitaly Eremenko, Moscow, telephones (7) 095 275 34 89 and (7) 095 196 95 79 (office), e-mail vitaly@glas.apc.org.)

Branimir Molak of Croatia said that further development of an SRA chapter in his country has been interrupted by the region's continuing wars. He presented a paper on the use of risk analysis in developing a rational approach to rebuilding the nation. (Contact: Branimir Molak, Zagreb, telephone (38) 51 579 834, e-mail molak@rujan.srce.hr.)

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