Müller-Mahn / Muller-Mahn The Spatial Dimension of Risk

How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-27130-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Earthscan Risk in Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Müller-Mahn, Detlef

Muller-Mahn, Detlef

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 21st 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.