Abstract
Over the past 50 years, societies around the world have become dependent on advanced technologies. This has greatly improved the standard of living for billions of people, but has also created new societal risks because many of those technologies can be disrupted by space weather. In this chapter we show how policymakers are dealing with these new risks by incorporating space weather into their management of natural hazards, and how they then encourage space weather scientists to combine their expertise with other relevant expertise from engineers, economists, and emergency managers. We then discuss what this means in terms of the advice and information that space weather scientists should bring into discussions with other experts and how this is integrated into the risk assessments that drive policy development. Finally we explore what future knowledge is required to support the continuing development and implementation of space weather policy.
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