The Spatial Dimension of Risk

How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes
Herausgeber: Müller-Mahn, Detlef

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the spatial dimensions of risk, examining the importance and role of 'space' within theories of risk and risk governance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781849710855
• ISBN-10: 1849710856
• Artikelnr.: 33325017

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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