Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence. Four exemplary focus areas were chosen for in-depth review, namely:

Part I: Fundamental Thoughts.- Risk Management from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics (Markus Vogt).- Distributed Responsibility in Risk Governance (Andreas Klinke and Ortwin Renn).- Economic Growth: Opportunity or Risk (Michael von Hauff).- Approaching Risk Management: General Perspectives on Handling Systemic Risks (Teresa Dorfner and Adrian Straub.- Part II: The Environmental and Ecological Dimensions.- Environmental and Ecological Aspects of Sustainable Risk Management (Martin Grambow and Jane Korck).- Maxims of Risk Ethics for Sustainable Agriculture (Franz-Theo Gottwald).- Risk of sustainable water management under the threat of climate change: Towards the Nexus City (Daphne Gondhalekar, Jörg Drewes and Martin Grambow).- Risking Weather Engineering: Fiction or Contribution to Conflict Prevention? (Peter Wilderer, Helmut Fluhrer and Elena Davidova).- Contribution of neurobiology to human decision making and motivation (Stefan Braune).- More Sustainability in CardiovascularPrevention -Holistic, Practice-Oriented Approaches Taking into Account Environmental Topics (Ulrich Hildebrandt).- Part III: The Medical Radiation Dimension.- Introduction and Position Statements (Michael Belau et al.).- The biological foundations of risks from ionizing radiation exposures: How understanding associated effects will help their quantification and mitigation (Georg Iliakis).- The carcinogenic risk in radiation medicine (Klaus Ruediger Trott).- Benefit and Risks of Screening for Breast Cancer (Sylvia Heywanger-Köbrunner).- "Radiation effects" in patient treatment (Michael Flentje and Michael Molls).- Risk Management in Radiation Medicine: Administrative, legal and ethical aspects of research in radiation medicine in Germany (Ursula Nestle and Peter Lukas).- Dealing with risks in modern medicine, effective communication included (Claudia Peter).- Part IV: The Technical Dimension.- Sustainable Risk Management concerning Technics, Robotics and Cyber-Systems (Max Rossmann andTobias Hafner).- Complexity, Risk and Technoscience (Klaus Mainzer).- Risking the Future of Automotive (Gernod Spiegelberg).- The Smart City Concept: A review concerning sustainable risk-management (Michael Kelnberger).- Dark Clouds over the Digital World (Daniela Korhammer and Konstantin Grambow).- Sustainable Risk Management in Business (Martin Steger).- Part V: Memorandum.- General Recommendations and Explanations.- Specific Recommendations and Explanations.