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Risk and Regulatory Policy

Risk and Regulatory Policy
Learning outcomes
To have a clear understanding of the idea of “risk” applicable to diverse subjects.
To have a sense of developing “risk regulations” in various fields in an evidence-based way.
To have knowledge on the utility of, and the way to conduct “regulatory impact analysis/assessment (RIA)”.
To have a capability of analyzing “real risk issues” in a consistent way for preparing better regulatory policies.

Contents of each class
The class consists of the following three components:
A) “Key phrases” will be introduced in each class with related classic paper(s).
B) “Real world risk regulations” will be discussed for one risk issue in each class from the viewpoint of how risks have been assessed and managed in Japan.
C) “Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)”: RIA document(s) covering the similar topics as “real world risk regulation” will be introduced from cases in the US, UK, EU, Australia, Canada or Japan.
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時間割/共通科目コード
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学期
時限
5122410
GPP-MP6P20L3
Risk and Regulatory Policy
岸本 充生
S1 S2
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英語
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2
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公共政策学教育部
授業計画
1) April 11 --- Introduction Key phrases : Risk, benefit, hazard Introduction: What is risk? Whaur society?t is safety? How are risks controlled in our society? 2) April 18 Key phrases : Risk comparison Risk regulation: Chemical substances (in Japan) RIA document Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium: final rule 3) April 25 Key phrases: risk perception Risk regulation: Pesticide residues in foods (in Japan) RIA document: Food Labeling; Gluten-Free Labeling of Foods 4) May 9 Key phrases: Resilience, Complex risk Risk regulation: public health, obesity, Influenza pandemic RIA document : tba 5) May 16 Key phrases : Acceptable risk Risk regulation: Cancinogens (in Japan) RIA document : Arsenic in Drinking Water Rule Economic Analysis 6) May 23 Key phrases : Resilience, Natech Risk regulation : Natural disasters (in Japan) RIA document : Impact Assessment of the national speed limit for Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in England and Wales 7) May 30 Key phrases: Regulatory impact analysis/assessment (RIA) Risk regulation : Traffic accidents 1 (in Japan) RIA document : Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards;Rear Visibility 8) June 6 Key Phrases : Value of statistical life (VSL) Risk Regulation : Drunk driving RIA document: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Occupant Crash Protection; Final Rule 9) June 13 Key phrases: Risk trade-off Risk Regulation Height of the seawall (in Japan) RIA document : Final Regulatory Impact Analysis Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Denial of Petition for Rulemaking; School Buses 10) June 20 Key phrases: Nudge, Heuristic, biases, system 1 and system 2 Risk regulation: Fire safety (in Japan) RIA document: RIA on the ban on the sale of non-child-resistant cigarette lighters in Japan (ライターの消費生活用製品安全法における特定製品及び特別特定製品への追加に係る事前評価書) 11) June 27 Key phrases: Trans-science, regulatory science, Post-normal science Risk regulation: CO2 and PM2.5 emissions from Coal Power Plant (in the U.S.) RIA document : Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Clean Power Plan Final Rule (2015) 12) July 4 Key phrases: Risk communication, dialogue, public engagement Risk regulation: Crime prevention (in Japan and the US) RIA document : The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment) Order 2016 in the UK 13) July 11 --- Summary Key phrases: National Risk Assessment, Global risks, Existential risks Risk regulation: cross sectional comparison
授業の方法
Lecture style
成績評価方法
Assessment information 1. Participation in and contributions to the classes 2. Several home works (short essays) 3. A final essay about 2,000- 3,000 English words, but it can be shorter or longer depending on the subject.
教科書
No textbook
参考書
Wilson, R. and Crouch, A. C. (2001). Risk-Benefit Analysis, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Fischhoff, B. and Kadvany, J. (2011). Risk: A Very Short Introduction 1st Edition. Oxford University Press. (中谷内一也訳『リスク 不確実性の中での意思決定 (サイエンス・パレット)』丸善出版、2015年) Rodricks, J. V. (2007). Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in our Environment. Cambridge University Press. Wilson, Richard (1979). Analyzing the daily risks to life. Technology Review 81(4):41–46. Slovic, Paul (1987). Perception of risk. Science 236: 280-285. 中谷内一也編著(2012)『リスクの社会心理学 --人間の理解と信頼の構築に向けて』有斐閣. IRGC (2006). White Paper on Risk Governance: Towards an Integrated Approach. International Risk Governance Council. ISO/IEC (2014). Guide 51: 2014 Safety aspects -- Guidelines for their inclusion in standards. Renn, O. (2008). Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World, London: Earthscan. Renn, O. Klinke, A. and van Asselt, M.B.A. (2011) “Coping with complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity in risk governance”, AMBIO 1(1): 67-81. OECD (2012). Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance. OECD (2018). Regulatory Policy Outlook 2018. Schelling, T.C. (1968). “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” in S.B. Chase, Jr., ed., Problems in Public Expenditure Analysis (Brookings Institute, Washington), 127-162. Viscusi, W.K., and J.E. Aldy (2003). “The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World,” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 27(1): 5-76. US Environmental Protection Agency, “Mortality Risk Valuation” Graham, J. D. and Wiener, J. B. eds. (1995). Risk versus Risk: Tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R. (2006). Libertarian paternalism Cass R. Sunstein, Nudging: A Very Short Guide, 37 J. Consumer Pol'y 583 (2014). Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R. (2009). Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Penguin Books. (リチャード・セイラー, キャス・サンスティーン著『実践 行動経済学』日経BP社.) Weinberg, A. M. (1972). Science and Trans-Science. Minerva 10(2): 209-222. Fischoff, B. (1995). Risk perception and communication unplugged: twenty years of process. Risk Analysis 15(2): 137-145. National Research Council (1989). Improving Risk Communication. National Academies Press. Lundgren, R. E. and McMakin, A. H. (2013). Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks. IEEE Press.
履修上の注意
It is desirable to attend from the 1st lecture.