WikiCurves

Risk Communications

Risk communications is not a field which all organisations are familiar with but it's premise is simple. Risk = hazard + outrage. In the 21st century, we seem to live in a risk-saturated culture. Engage with our WikiCurve to see how societal approaches to risk and collective perceptions of who is responsible for managing risks has changed over the last two centuries.

Action on Climate Change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average (e.g., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change may be limited to a specific region or may occur across the whole Earth.

Corporate Responsibility for Sustainable Development

With an increasing number of environmental and social controversies impacting corporations, the notion of corporate responsibility emerged as a means of companies proactively managing their emerging issues. Today the question of corporate responsibility stretches beyond shareholder returns to managing material stakeholder expectations and sustainable development.

The Green Economy

A green economy is an economic development model based on sustainable development and a knowledge of ecological economics. The Green Economy is different from past economic models in that it includes a direct valuation of natural capital and ecological services and a full cost accounting regime in which costs externalised onto society via ecosystems are valued.

Action and concern on biodiversity

The variety of life on Earth - its biological diversity - is commonly referred to as biodiversity. The number of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, the different ecosystems on the planet, such as deserts, rainforests and coral reefs are all part of a biologically diverse Earth. We are grateful to the CSIRO for facilitating the development of this Curve.