RISK newsletter:
SRA-Europe: Renn Is Section President
Source: RISK newsletter,
Fourth Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
Ortwin Renn |
Ortwin Renn, a member of the board
of directors at the Center of Technology Assessment in
Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany, was
elected president of the Society for Risk Analysis-Europe
by the SRA-Europe Executive Committee at its meeting on
September 20 in Paris, France.
Renn directs the center's Department of Technology,
Society, and Environmental Economics and is also the
environmental sociology chair at the University of
Stuttgart. His current research topics include risk
perception and communication, regional concepts of
sustainable development, citizen participation in risk
management, the social perception of genetic engineering,
and the development of a new theoretical approach to
study the social amplification of risk. He serves on the
German Government Advisory Council on Global Change, the
State Research Board of Baden-Württemberg, and
the State Environmental Board of the Protestant Church.
He is coeditor of the journal GAIA and a Kluwer
Academic Publishers' book series on technology and risk.
Renn has an M.A. in sociology and economics and a
Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of
Cologne. His previous positions include an associate
professorship at Clark University in Wooster,
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Massachusetts, where he was a senior investigator and the
acting director for Clark Center for Technology, Environment, and
Development. His publications include seven books and more than
50 journal articles or book chapters. An SRA member since 1988,
he has served on the SRA-Europe Executive Committee since 1994
and organized the 1995 SRA-Europe Annual Meeting held in
Stuttgart.
Other New Officers. The Executive Committee also
elected from its membership a secretary, Lynn Frewer of the
Institute of Food Research, Reading, United Kingdom; a treasurer,
Martin Brüstlein of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG in Basel,
Switzerland; an East-West information chair, Esko F. Blokker of
the DCMR Environmental Protection Agency, Rijnmond, Netherlands;
and a Europe-USA representative, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer of the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in
Laxenburg, Austria. A president-elect and a membership and
fund-raising chair will be chosen at the committee's January
meeting.
1997 Annual Meeting. Planners of SRA-Europe's 1997
Annual Meeting, to be held June 15-18 in Stockholm, Sweden, will
issue a second-announcement brochure soon and will also place a
home page on the Internet. The meeting schedule currently
includes a bus tour on Sunday, June 15, to the Forsmark nuclear
power plant -- Sweden's final repository for radioactive
operational waste since 1988; a reception Sunday evening at the
City Hall, when the SRA-Europe Executive Committee will present
the section's Distinguished Scientist Award; SRA-Europe's annual
business meeting on Monday evening, June 16; and the annual
meeting dinner on Tuesday evening, June 17.
"There is already quite a lot of interest shown for the
annual meeting," says SRA-Europe Executive Committee member
and Conference Director Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg of the
Stockholm School of Economics' Center for Risk Research, which is
the host and principal organizer of the meeting. "The
deadline for submitting abstracts is January 15."
The organizers, which also include Riskkollegiet, a Swedish
Risk Academy, and the Royal Insitute for Technology's Center for
Safety Research, are also asking business and industry to become
sponsors of the annual meeting. "The more sponsors we can
attract, the more possibility we will have to invite researchers
from Eastern and Central Europe," said Drottz
Sjöberg.
For information or to submit an abstract, contact the
conference secretary, Kristina Eddon, at the Center for Risk
Research, Stockholm School of Economics, Box 6501, S-113 83
Stockholm, Sweden, e-mail pks@hhs.se, fax (46) 8 30 72 25,
telephone (46) 8 736 95 70.
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