Risk Governance or Risky Governance: How to Approach Uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What makes for good policy during times of pandemics and other such emergencies when it comes to managing risk?  How do we normalize risk, and how do we measure it?  In this podcast, Kevin Quigley gets into the nuts and bolts of how policy makers approach risk, and how they should approach it during the pandemic.  

Kevin Quigley is the scholarly director at the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance and a professor in Dalhousie’s School of Public Administration, Faculty of Management. He specializes in public sector risk and crisis management, strategic management and critical infrastructure protection.

He has published an acclaimed book on critical infrastructure, numerous articles in academic journals and studies for a professional audience; his newest book, Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure was published by McGill-Queen's in November 2017 and shortlisted for the Donner Prize.

This podcast is part of a special GDP Roadshow series featured a COVID-19 video panel with the Canada International Council and the MacEachen Institute of Public Policy & Governance.

Check out the entire Video conference here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOPY1gvkmr4

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