ABSTRACT
By anticipating hazards and taking preventive measures, modern societies succeed in managing risks in many areas. Certainly, incidents have occurred in the past, every so often with quite serious consequences. But generally speaking, the classical risk approach, including the policies grafted onto it, constitutes a success story. And yet this risk approach has come under pressure. Aside from the problems linked to administrative complexity and lack of transparency discussed in Chapter 3, current policies face two types of problems.
