Regulatory Governance and Risk Management

<p><em>Regulatory Governance and Risk Management</em> will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically it aims to understand a puzzling phenomenon. Since the 1990s the approach of risk-based governance has been widely adopted in almost all developed countries in Europe and commonwealth countries. It however has diffused much more slowly in the U.S. Using a diffusion approach and comparisons between Australia and the U.S. this book examines mechanisms that both drive and prevent the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry. </p><p>This book has two major selling points. First this is a timely work given the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion occurred in April 2010. After this disaster many asked why an enhanced level of enforcement after 2006 has not prevented catastrophic accidents from occurring and why risk-based governance which helps other countries achieve better safety performance has been largely ignored in the U.S. This book answers these questions and makes recommendations on how to remove barriers in moving toward risk-based governance. Second this book is readable because it embeds theories into storytelling and gives particular emphasis on the influence of key strategic individuals. </p>