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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2020

Taming COVID-19 by Regulation: An Opportunity for Self-Reflection

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The COVID-19 outbreak offers a rich case study of government’s emergency response. As such, it is a test bed for risk research and regulatory theories in a world increasingly shaped by transboundary, uncertain manufactured and natural risks. This introductory essay to the special issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation attempts at providing an initial analysis of the surprisingly uncoordinated, at times unscientific, response to an essentially foreseeable event like a novel coronavirus (nCoV) in a geopolitically shattered world. It warns that COVID-19 may go down in history as yet another major disaster occurrence with no learnings attached. Yet, as new transboundary disasters – from bioterrorism to climate change – loom on the horizon, neither the world nor risk regulation, as a discipline and practice of government, can hardly afford to let another crisis go wasted.
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hal-02896738 , version 1 (10-07-2020)

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Alberto Alemanno. Taming COVID-19 by Regulation: An Opportunity for Self-Reflection. 2020. ⟨hal-02896738⟩

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