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The Spatial Dimension of Risk : How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes.
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 fa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Earthscan Risk in Society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Space matters! Impacts for risk governance / Andreas Klinke
- 2. Riskscapes: the spatial dimensions of risk / Jonathan Everts
- 3. The place for space in risk research: the example of discourse analysis approaches / Karl-Michael Hoferl
- 4. Risk, space and system theory: communication and management of natural hazards / 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. Ungovemed territories: the construction of spaces of risk in the ẁar on terrorism' / Conrad Schetter
- 8. Spaces of risk and cultures of resilience: HIV/AIDS and adherence in Botswana / Fred Kruger
- 9. Risk as a technology of power: FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes / Judith Miggelbrink
- 10. The 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? / Margreth Keiler
- 14. Making sense of the spatial dimensions of risk / Martin Doevenspeck.