ISBN:
9789400761841
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (194 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research Ser. v.33
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.12
Keywords:
Cities and towns ; Risk assessment..
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Emergency management..
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Disasters ; Risk assessment
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Electronic books
Abstract:
When a natural hazard strikes a city, many people are vulnerable. This book explores what city-dwellers think and feel about the threats that they face. It brings to light the ways different cultures represent the natural hazards around them.
Abstract:
Intro -- Cities at Risk -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction - Living with Perils in the Twenty-First Century -- 1.1 Natural Hazards in the Twenty-First Century -- 1.2 The Book -- 1.3 Gaps and Challenges in Risk Perception Studies in the Twenty-First Century -- 1.4 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 2: Risk Society and Representations of Risks: Earthquakes and Beyond -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Challenging the Term 'Risk' -- 2.3 Challenging the Term Risk 'Perception' -- 2.4 Evidence for 'Risk Perception' Driving Action? -- 2.5 A More Fitting Theory of People's Apprehension of Dangers: From 'Risk Perception' to 'Risk Representation' -- 2.6 A New Way of Studying Responses to Earthquake Risk: The EPICentre Risk Representation Project -- 2.7 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 3: Risk Compensation in Cities at Risk -- 3.1 The Risks We Face -- 3.2 Risk Compensation -- 3.3 Risk and Resilience -- 3.4 Perceptual Filters -- 3.5 Risk Is an Interactive Phenomenon -- 3.6 What Kills You Matters -- 3.7 The Dance of the Risk Thermostats -- 3.8 A Sudden Shift of Focus -- 3.8.1 Who Is in Charge? -- 3.8.2 How Is the Thermostat Set? -- 3.9 Whose Appetite for Risk? -- 3.10 Where Are the Keys? -- References -- Chapter 4: Responding to Flood Risk in the UK -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Research -- 4.2.1 Qualitative Research -- 4.2.2 Quantitative Research -- 4.3 Perceptions of the Mitigation Measures - Cost, Stigma and Reliability -- 4.4 Anxiety, Fatalism and Vulnerability -- 4.4.1 The Representation of 'Home' -- 4.4.2 The Representation of 'Society' -- 4.4.3 The Representation of 'Nature' -- 4.5 Identity, Trust and Responsibility -- 4.6 Event Experience and Frequency -- 4.6.1 When Existing Representations Have to Be Abandoned - The Stoical Response.
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