2016 年 43 巻 1 号 p. 21-34
The chain of catastrophic events (the 2011 disaster) raised a number of critical questions associated with the methodological issues of “risk analysis” in managing the emergent characteristics of low-frequency and high-consequence risks. In this paper, salient methodological issues in responding to such a surprise and complex risk event are explored in terms of “limit of scientific risk assessment”, “deficit in risk governance” and “insufficient risk communication” taking account of the lessons learned from the 2011 disaster.