Bulletin Board for Current Students
2015-02-12
GraSPP/UTokyo - Crawford/ANU Workshop on Risk and Security
- Poster (PDF, 1.95 MB)
[Date] Tuesday, 24th February 13:00-13:30 Introduction of Crawford School, ANU 13:30-15:30 Workshop on "Risk and Security"
[Venue] GraSPP, 7F Room 710 (Ad.3) Administration Bureau Bldg. #2, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
[Registration] Please register through the link below: http://goo.gl/forms/R6t3hlNMYi
[Speakers] Prof. Tom Kompas (ANU) - Risk and Public Policy: The Three Great Myths of Risk Management In this presentation, Professor Kompas discusses the Three Great Myths of Risk Management and their effects on public policy decisions. The myths are: (1) that 'risk can be defined as the probability of an occurrence times its consequence'; (2) that 'nature takes no jumps'; and (3) that 'it is always best to invest in the risk-mitigating activity that has the highest benefit-cost ratio'. Examples of the errors that result from following these myths, along with more appropriate risk management measures, are also provided, drawing on the author's recent work on conservation design and the economics of biosecurity. Prof. Atsuo Kishimoto - "Integration of "Safety" and "Security" through risk approach" Safety and security have been separately discussed until recently. In the area of safety, risk approach has been adopted in order to answer the question "how safe is safe enough?" The subject of security has expanded its scope beyond military area to variety of areas after the cold war ended. It is called "securitization". "All hazards" approach has been adopted by many developed countries in response to the 9.11 terrorist attacks in the 2000s. The field of security has just started to tackle with risk approach in order that "all hazards" approach will function well. Facilitator: Prof. Hideaki Shiroyama Discussants: Prof. Keisuke Iida and Prof. Heng Yee Kuang
[Prof. Tom Kompas - Short Bio] Prof. Tom Kompas is the Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also the Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics (ACBEE) and one of four Chief Investigators in the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) at the University of Melbourne. He has dedicated much of his recent time and work to public policy in Australia and the region. Until recently, he was a part-time Senior Economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), a Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) project leader on biosecurity and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. In 2010, Tom was appointed to the Eminent Scientists Group (ESG) in the Department of Agriculture. The ESG provides independent advice to the Minister and the Secretary of the Department on matters of biosecurity and risk analysis. In 2012, Tom became Editor-in-Chief of Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, President of the newly-formed Asia and Pacific Policy Society and Publisher of APPS Policy Forum (http://www.policyforum.net/). Tom's research specializes in applied economic dynamics, cost-benefit analysis and natural resource and environmental economics. His bioeconomic modelling and biosecurity research has been published in the world's leading international journals (including Science, Nature Climate Change, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Land Economics, Environmental Modelling and Software and Conservation Biology), and his current work focuses on the major biosecurity issues in Australia and internationally. In 2009, Tom was a recipient of the University's highest award for teaching, the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching'.