Perspectives of Transdisciplinary Risk Research (US-German Workshop)

对风险的研究需要学科、应用领域和理论概念的整合。它结合了技术、自然科学和社会科学的各种科学观点：在自然科学和技术科学中，需要包括工程安全、自然灾害研究、健康风险评估(流行病学、毒理学)和环境影响分析。社会科学对风险治理的风险研究包括伦理学、政治学、社会学、经济学、文化研究和社会心理学，仅举几个主要观点。这些学科影响着社会科学风险研究。由数学、工程学、地理学、卫生和环境科学、哲学、政治学、社会学、社会心理学、经济学和文化研究的主要代表参加的国际讲习班将鼓励这些研究领域之间的对话，从而加强整个社会科学风险研究。最后，风险治理将从改进的社会科学风险研究中获益良多。

Research into risk requires integration among disciplines, application areas and theoretical concepts. It incorporates various scientific perspectives within the technical, natural and social sciences: Among the natural and technical sciences one needs to include engineering safety, natural hazards research, health risk assessment (epidemiology, toxicology) and environmental impact analysis. Social science risk research into risk governance comprises ethical studies, political science, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and social psychology, to name but the main perspectives. These disciplines influence social science risk research. An international workshop with leading representatives of mathematics, engineering, geography, health and environmental sciences, philosophy, political science, sociology, social psychology, economics and cultural studies will encourage a dialogue between these fields of research, thus strengthening social science risk research as a whole. Finally, risk governance will profit considerably from improved social science risk research.