ISBN:
9781136271304
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Serie:
Earthscan Risk in Society Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
Paralleltitel:
Druckausg. u.d.T. The spatial dimension of risk
DDC:
304.23
Schlagwort(e):
Risk perception
;
Risk perception
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Sozialgeografie
;
Risikoanalyse
;
Risikomanagement
;
Risiko
;
Auswirkung
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Raumverhalten
;
Risiko
;
Regionalforschung
;
Naturkatastrophe
;
Risiko
;
Sozialgeografie
Kurzfassung:
Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and state failure. Case studies range from the Congo to Central Asia, from tsunami in Japan and civil war affected areas in Sri Lanka to avalanche hazards in Austria. In each of these cases, the authors examine the importance and role of space in the causes and differentiation of risk, in how we can conceptualize risk from a spatial perspective and in the relevance of space and locality for risk governance. This new approach - endorsed by Ragnar Löfstedt and Ortwin Renn, two of the world's leading and most prolific risk analysts - is essential reading for those charged with studying, anticipating and managing risks.
Kurzfassung:
Front Cover -- The Spatial Dimension of Risk -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1. Space matters! Impacts for risk governance: Ortwin Renn and Andreas Klinke -- 2. Riskscapes: the spatial dimensions of risk: Detlef Müller-Mahn and Jonathan Everts -- 3. A place for space in risk research: the example of discourse analysis approaches: Peter Weichhart and Karl-Michael Höferl -- 4. Risk, space and system theory: communication and management of natural hazards: Jürgen Pohl, Swen Zehetmair and Julia Mayer -- 5. The certainty of uncertainty: topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka's civil war: Benedikt Korf -- 6. Anxiety and risk: pandemics in the twenty-first century: Jonathan Everts -- 7. Ungoverned territories: the construction of spaces of risk in the 'war on terrorism': Conrad Schetter -- 8. Spaces of risk and cultures of resilience: HIV/AIDS and adherence in Botswana: Fred Krüger -- 9. Risk as a technology of power: FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes: Bernd Belina and Judith Miggelbrink -- 10. An impossible site? Understanding risk and its geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo: Martin Doevenspeck -- 11. Boundary-making as a strategy for risk reduction in conflict-prone spaces: Hermann Kreutzmann -- 12. Bethinking oneself of the risk of (physical) geography: Barbara Zahnen -- 13. Space and time: coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management?: Sven Fuchs and Margreth Keiler -- 14. Making sense of the spatial dimensions of risk: Detlef Müller-Mahn, Jonathan Everts and Martin Doevenspeck -- References -- Index.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Front Cover; The Spatial Dimension of Risk; Copyright Page; Contents; List offigures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Space matters! Impacts for risk governance: Ortwin Renn and Andreas Klinke; 2. Riskscapes: the spatial dimensions of risk: Detlef Müller-Mahn and Jonathan Everts; 3. A place for space in risk research: the example of discourse analysis approaches: Peter Weichhart and Karl-Michael Höferl; 4. Risk, space and system theory: communication and management of natural hazards: Jürgen Pohl, Swen Zehetmair and Julia Mayer
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5. The certainty of uncertainty: topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka's civil war: Benedikt Korf6. Anxiety and risk: pandemics in the twenty-first century: JonathanEverts; 7. Ungoverned territories: the construction of spaces of risk in the 'war on terrorism': Conrad Schetter; 8. Spaces of risk and cultures of resilience: HIV/AIDS and adherence in Botswana: Fred Krüger; 9. Risk as a technology of power: FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes: Bernd Belina and JudithMiggelbrink
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
10. An impossible site? Understanding risk and its geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo: Martin Doevenspeck11. Boundary-making as a strategy for risk reduction in conflict-prone spaces: Hermann Kreutzmann; 12. Bethinking oneself of the risk of (physical) geography: Barbara Zahnen; 13. Space and time: coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management?: Sven Fuchs and Margreth Keiler; 14. Making sense of the spatial dimensions of risk: Detlef Müller-Mahn, Jonathan Everts and Martin Doevenspeck; References; Index;
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