Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Fundamental Thoughts -- 1 Risk Management from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics -- Preliminary Remarks -- Contingency as a Challenge for Ethics -- Uncertainty as a Component of the "Cognitive Infrastructure" of Postmodern Morality -- "Moral in Doubt": Productive Meaning of Informed Unknowing -- The Limits of Rational Choice Considering Complexity and Uncertainty -- Patterns of Unresolved Complexity in Politics and Society -- The Declamatory Overload of Responsibility in Politics -- The Logic of Failure -- Underrating of the "Risk Factor Human" -- Risk Maturity in Light of Systemic Ignorance -- Theological Models for Dealing with Informed Unknowing -- Theology: The Science of Known Ignorance -- Determination: Rediscovery of an Existential Dimension of Choice -- References -- 2 Distributed Responsibility in Risk Governance -- Introduction -- Epistemological Deliberation -- Associational Deliberation -- Public Deliberation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Economic Growth: Opportunity or Risk -- Introduction -- The Different Approaches to the Growth Controversy -- Environment and Growth within the Context of Neoclassical Growth Theory -- Environment and Growth within the Context of Ecological Economics -- Environment and Growth within the Context of the Post-growth Society or the Post-growth Economy -- Environment and Growth within the Context of the Degrowth Approach and the Low-Growth Model -- The Controversy from the Empirical Perspective -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Approaching Risk Management: General Perspectives on Handling Systemic Risk -- Key Messages -- The Role of Risk Management -- Risk Analysis and Evaluation as Part of Risk Management -- Risk Governance Put into Practice: The Biopharmaceutical Industry. , Risk Governance and Globalization -- Changing Leadership Qualities -- References -- The Environmental and Ecological Dimensions -- 5 Environmental and Ecological Aspects of Sustainable Risk Management -- Context Statement -- Introduction -- Terminology/Definitions of Environment, Biodiversity -- Terminology/Definitions of Risk -- Challenges Arising from the Contemporary Environmental Risks -- Basic Description of Environmental Risks -- Climate Change -- The Loss of Natural Landscapes -- Agriculture -- The Ethics and Psychology of Environmental Risks -- Who Is Capable of Reasonable Risk Management? Political and Psychological Approaches: To Whom Can We Entrust This Kind of Risk Management? -- Politics and the State -- Ecce Homo -- Proposed Solutions: Merging Personal Benefit and Risk with the Global Risks -- Activation Through Comprehensive Description and Explanation of the Risks -- Demand No. 1: Risk-Combination-Transparency -- Demand No. 2: Benefit-Risk-Transparency -- Recommendation: A Conglomerate Risk Inventory -- Using the Risk Inventory -- Summary and Conclusions -- Annex 1 -- References -- 6 Maxims of Risk Ethics for Sustainable Agriculture -- On Risks in Agriculture -- What Is Sustainable Agriculture? -- Maxims of Risk Ethics for Sustainable Agriculture -- Ethically Informed Agricultural Policy -- References -- 7 Risk and Water Management Under Climate Change: Towards the Nexus City -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Methods -- Leh, Ladakh, India: A Case Study in a Semi-arid High-Altitude Himalayan Region -- Munich, Germany: A Case Study in the Water-Rich Alpine Foothills Region -- Synthesis of the Two Cases -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8 Risking Weather Engineering: Fiction or Contribution to Conflict Prevention? -- Context Statement -- Introduction -- Analysis of the Problem. , Traditional Methods for Mitigating Water Scarcity -- The Biotic Pump-Natural Means for Delivering Rainfall -- Innovative Methods of Rainfall Enhancement: "Cloud Seeding" as an Example -- Ionization Technology: The Alternative to Cloud Seeding -- Field Trials, Observations, Assessments -- Rainfall Enhancement-a Sustainable Alternative? -- Envisioned Risks -- References -- 9 The Contribution of Neurobiology to Human Decision-Making Processes and Motivation -- Risk and Uncertainty as a Part of Human Existence -- Individual Decision-Making Processes -- Collective Decision-Making Processes -- Impacts, for Example, on the Option of Consciously Managing Large-Scale Risks Using Behavioral Change -- 10 More Sustainability in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention-Holistic, Practice-Oriented Approaches Taking into Account Environmental Topics -- Can the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Be Predicted? Can It Be Influenced? -- Why Is the Promotion of Health and Disease Prevention of so Little Appeal and so Unsuccessful? -- New Approaches for Improvement and Further Development Through Motivation for Risk-Minimising Behaviour -- The Blue Zone Project -- Pilot Projects for New Ways -- The Six Pillars of Our Comprehensive Programme for More Sustainability in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention -- Can Pragmatic Ties from the Impulses of the Ottawa Charter and from the Climate Conference in Paris Be Used for More Sustainability in Disease Prevention? -- Result: Pilot Projects for More Sustainability in Cardiovascular Prevention and Promotion of Health -- The Medical Radiation Dimension -- 11 Risk and Challenges in Radiation Medicine-An Introduction and Position Statement -- Key Messages -- 12 The Biological Foundations of Risks from Ionizing Radiation Exposures: How an Understanding of Associated Effects Will Help Their Quantification and Mitigation -- Key Messages. , Risks from Radiation Exposures: Reality and Perceptions -- Background on IR-Induced DNA Damage-Particularly DNA Double-Strand Breaks -- Background on Cellular Pathways Processing DNA Double-Strand Breaks -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13 The Carcinogenic Risk in Radiation Medicine -- Introduction: Evidence for Carcinogenic Radiation Risks -- Rules and Regulations to Protect Workers from Carcinogenic Radiation Risks -- The Carcinogenic Risks of Patients Undergoing Radiological Procedures -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Benefit and Risks of Screening for Breast Cancer -- Introduction -- Fundamentals -- The Method -- The Debate -- Benefits of Mammography Screening -- Risks (=Potential Side Effects) of Mammography Screening -- Alternatives to Mammography Screening -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 "Radiation Effects" in Patient Treatment -- Introduction -- General Relationship Between Benefit and Harm -- Individual Patient Relationship Between Benefit and Side Effect -- Summary -- References -- 16 Risk Management in Radiation Medicine: Administrative, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Research in Radiation Medicine in Germany -- Key Messages -- Clinical Trials in Radiation Medicine -- Research Involving Radiation Medicine in Germany -- Risk of the Combination of Drugs and Therapeutic Radiation -- Changing Position of Ethics Committees -- Conclusions -- 17 On Dealing with Risks in Modern Medicine and Communicating Them Effectively -- Knowledge Production in Modernity -- On Dealing Reflectively with Modern Knowledge Dynamics -- Not Greater Certainty, but Reflection on Uncertainty, Is the Goal -- Communicating These Risky Trade-Offs in Clinical Practice -- Doctor Meets Patient-Medical Expertise Meets Everyday Knowledge -- Explain like an Expert, Understand like a Human: How the Doctor Can Talk with the Patient. , As a Doctor, How Do I Communicate the Risks in a Medical Treatment to My Patient? -- Concepts: Risk-Danger-Insecurity and Uncertainty -- When Is It Proper to Talk of Risks and When of Danger? -- On What Does Each Side Base Its Decisions? -- Conclusions -- References -- The Technical Dimension -- 18 Sustainable Risk Management in Technics, Robotics and Cyber-Security: An Introduction -- Apocalypse and Utopia-Known and Unknown Risks in Sociotechnical Systems -- Participatory Risk Assessment -- Resilient Structures as Strategy for Facing Unknown Risks -- References -- 19 Complexity, Risk, and Technoscience -- Key Messages -- Globalization and Systems Dynamics -- Case Study: Conservative and Dissipative Systems in Ecology -- Case Study: Conservative and Dissipative Systems in Economics -- Example: Power Laws and Risks -- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Sociotechnical Systems -- Reminder of the Internet as Complex Dynamical System -- Smart Grids as Complex Dynamical Systems -- Example: Automatic Negotiations of Virtual Agents -- Example: Internet of Things -- Complexity and Big Data Technology -- Example: Big Data Correlations in Medicine -- References -- 20 Risking the Future of Automotive Industry -- Context Statement -- What May Change in the Future? -- Lifestyle 4.0 Will Require New Solutions -- What Kind of Lifestyle May Evolve? -- What Does This Mean for Mobility as Part of Future Lifestyle? -- From Private Ownership to Mobility as a Service -- Design of Cities We Want to Live in -- Opportunities in Design, Development, Manufacturing and Business of These Autonomous Agents in the Internet of Things -- What Is the Risk for Us in This Changing World? -- References -- 21 The Smart City Concept: A Review Concerning Sustainable Risk Management -- Context Statement -- Introduction -- Transformational Model of a Smart City. , Digital Divide and Its Meaning for Acceptance.