Source: RISK newsletter,
Third Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
Editor’s note: This article is based on information provided by Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg, a member of SRA-Europe’s Executive Committee.
Executive Committee Members Elected
At its meeting in September 1995, SRA-Europe’s Executive Committee voted to increase its size from eight to nine members. The following new members were recently elected by the membership by mail ballot:
Esko F. Blokker, head of International Office at the DCMR Environmental Protection Agency, Rijnmond, Netherlands.
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, leader of the Risk, Policy, and Complexity Programme at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; recipient of the 1996 SRA-Europe Distinguished Scientist Award.
Ragnar Löfstedt, lecturer at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environmental Strategy, Guildford, United Kingdom; organizer of 1996 SRA-Europe Annual Meeting; co-opted member of the Executive Committee during 1995-96.
Ortwin Renn, director at the Center of Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany; organizer of 1995 SRA-Europe Annual Meeting; co-opted member of the Executive Committee during 1994-95.
These four will replace retiring Executive Committee members Vitaly Eremenko of the Kurchatov Institute’s Russian Research Centre in the Russian Federation, SRA-Europe President Ray Kemp of Dames and Moore in London, Paolo Vestrucci of NIER in Italy, and Catherina Zwetkoff of Faculté de Droit in Belgium.
In addition, Lynn Frewer, risk perception psychologist at the Institute of Food Research, Reading, United Kingdom, was elected as the ninth member of the Executive Committee; Kemp, as the outgoing president, will serve one more year, replacing outgoing Detlef Müller of Procter & Gamble GmbH in Germany as the immediate past president; and Lennart Sjöberg, head of the Center for Risk Research at the Stockholm School of Economics and chairman of the Scientific Committee for the 1997 Annual Meeting, will serve one year as a co-opted member.
All newly elected members will take office on September 20 when the Executive Committee meets in Paris, at which time it will elect a president, president-elect, secretary, membership and fund-raising chair, and an East-West information chair.
1996 Annual Meeting Actions
Plans were approved at SRA-Europe’s 1996 Annual Meeting to launch a new publication titled Journal of Risk Research. The editorial board is currently under review, and the journal’s first issue is planned for the spring of 1997.
The formation of the U.K. Chapter, the first SRA chapter in Western Europe, was also approved. It was organized by Löfstedt and Kemp, who are acting treasurer and acting president, respectively. Frewer is the acting secretary and Judith Petts of the Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, U.K., is acting membership coordinator. An inaugural meeting with three speakers addressing the theme "Risk Agenda: Regulatory, Research and Industrial Perspectives" will be held October 23 at the Health and Safety Executive Headquarters in London. For more information, contact Löfstedt, e-mail r.lofstedt@surrey.ac.uk, or Frewer, e-mail lynn.frewer@bbsrc.ac.uk.
1997 Annual Meeting Scheduled
The 1997 SRA-Europe Annual Meeting, which will focus on the theme "New Risk Frontiers," is scheduled for June 15-18 in Stockholm, Sweden. Send abstract submissions by January 15, 1997, to the conference secretary, Kristina Eddon, at the Stockholm School of Economics, e-mail pke@hhs.se or pks@hhs.se, fax (46) 8 30 72 25, telephone (46) 8 736 95 70.
The conference director is Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg of the Stockholm School of Economics, e-mail pbmds@hhs.se, telephone (46) 8 736 95 76, fax (46) 8 30 72 25.
Secretariat Established
Recapping the year, President Kemp says SRA-Europe has
achieved a stable position with increasing membership and
improving finances. In addition, it has established a Secretariat
at P.O. Box 247, CH-4102 Binningen 1, Switzerland, fax/telephone
++41 61 422 13 70.