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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.
List of contents
Preface 1. Space Matters! Impacts for Risk Governance 2. Riskscapes: The Spatial Dimensions of Risk 3. A Place for Space in Risk Research – The Example of Discourse Analysis Approaches 4. Risk, Space and System Theory: Communication and management of natural hazards 5. The Certainty of Uncertainty: Topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka’s civil war 6. Anxiety and Risk: Pandemics in the 21st century 7. Ungoverned Territories – The construction of spaces of risk in the ‘War on Terrorism’ 8. Spaces of Risk and Cultures of Resilience – HIV/AIDS and Adherence in Botswana 9. Risk as a Technology of Power: FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes 10. An impossible site? Understanding risk and its geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo 11. Boundary-making as a Strategy for Risk Reduction in Conflict-prone Spaces 12. Bethinking Oneself of the Risk of (Physical) Geography 13. Space and Time: Coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management? 14. Making Sense of the Spatial Dimensions of Risk
About the author
Detlef Müller-Mahn is Professor of Social Geography and Director of ZENEB (Center for Natural Risks and Development Bayreuth) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Summary
Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions 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.
