The Spatial Dimension of Risk
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The Spatial Dimension of Risk

How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Spatial Dimension of Risk

How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781136271298
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Insurance
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures and tables
  7. List of contributors
  8. Preface
  9. 1. Space matters! Impacts for risk governance
  10. 2. Riskscapes: the spatial dimensions of risk
  11. 3. A place for space in risk research: the example of discourse analysis approaches
  12. 4. Risk, space and system theory: communication and management of natural hazards
  13. 5. The certainty of uncertainty: topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka’s civil war
  14. 6. Anxiety and risk: pandemics in the twenty-first century
  15. 7. Ungoverned territories: the construction of spaces of risk in the ‘war on terrorism’
  16. 8. Spaces of risk and cultures of resilience: HIV/AIDS and adherence in Botswana
  17. 9. Risk as a technology of power: FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes
  18. 10. An impossible site? Understanding risk and its geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
  19. 11. Boundary-making as a strategy for risk reduction in conflictprone spaces
  20. 12. Bethinking oneself of the risk of (physical) geography
  21. 13. Space and time: coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management?
  22. 14. Making sense of the spatial dimensions of risk
  23. References
  24. Index