Aven Terje
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway.
Risk Anal. 2025 Feb;45(2):274-282. doi: 10.1111/risa.16558. Epub 2024 Jul 29.
Risk science is the most updated and justified knowledge-in the form of concepts, principles, approaches, methods, and models-for understanding, assessing, characterizing, communicating, and handling risk, with applications. It is also about the practice that gives us this knowledge. It is commonly stated that risk science is politically neutral. This perspective article discusses this assertion by scrutinizing the relationship between risk science and politics. In particular, it looks into the position of The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) on this matter. Using some current risk problems as illustrating examples, including COVID-19 and climate change risk, the article argues that defending the political neutrality aim is paramount, especially with today's increasingly divisive political landscape.
风险科学是最新且合理的知识——以概念、原理、方法、模型等形式呈现——用于理解、评估、描述、沟通和处理风险及其应用。它也是关于为我们提供这些知识的实践。人们普遍认为风险科学在政治上是中立的。这篇观点文章通过审视风险科学与政治之间的关系来讨论这一论断。特别是，它探讨了风险分析协会（SRA）在这个问题上的立场。本文以一些当前的风险问题为例，包括新冠疫情和气候变化风险，认为捍卫政治中立目标至关重要，尤其是在当今政治分歧日益加剧的情况下。
