The Spatial Dimension of Risk How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes [Paperback]

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 L?fstedt 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.

Preface  1. Space Matters! Impacts for Risk Governance Ortwin Renn and Andreas Klinke  2. Riskscapes: The Spatial Dimensions of Risk Detlef M?ller-Mahn and Jonathan Everts  3. A Place for Space in Risk Research  The Example of Discourse Analysis Approaches Peter Weichhart and Karl-Michael H?ferl  4. Risk, Space and System Theory: Communication and management of natural hazards J?rgen Pohl, Swen Zehetmair and Julia Mayer  5. The Certainty of Uncertainty: Topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lankas 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 Kr?ger  9. Risk as a Technology of Power: FRONTEX as an example of the l“r