Nuclear technology creates complex, international, intergenerational and multi-level risks. While these risks add to the institutional complexity of the global system, they also contribute to the emergence of new forms and practices of risk governance. From the outset, the literature on risk governance explicitly acknowledged the “transboundary, international and ubiquitous” nature of risks (Renn 2008, 43). Yet, in the subsequent decade, the multilaterality of risk governance has received little scholarly attention (see also Kuipers et al, 2018). This special issue of Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy will focus on the Multilateral Challenges of Nuclear Risks, whereby it addresses safety and security as well as safeguard issues associated with nuclear risks. In this editorial, we will first discuss what we mean by ‘nuclear risk’ and ‘multilateral governance’. We will wrap up by presenting the papers that deal with these multilateral aspects of nuclear risks.

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核风险的多边治理

核技术造成复杂，国际，代际和多层次的风险。尽管这些风险增加了全球体系的机构复杂性，但它们也促进了风险治理新形式和新实践的出现。从一开始，有关风险治理的文献就明确承认了风险的“跨界，国际和无处不在”性质（Renn 2008，43）。然而，在随后的十年中，风险治理的多边性几乎没有受到学术界的关注（另见Kuipers等人，2018）。本期《公共政策中的风险，危险和危机》特刊将侧重于核风险的多边挑战，从而解决安全与保安以及与核风险有关的保障问题。在这篇社论中 我们将首先讨论“核风险”和“多边治理”的含义。我们将通过介绍涉及核风险这些多边方面的文件来结束本文。