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Risk Governance - The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Risk Governance - The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and
risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light
on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and
interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence
decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk. The
first section explores risk governance under conditions of
increasing complexity, diversity and change. The discussion
includes chapters on The problem of governance in the risk society;
Making sense of decentralization; Understanding and conceptualizing
risk in large-scale social-ecological systems; The disaster
epidemic and Structure, process, and agency in the evaluation of
risk governance. Part II, focused on governance in regions and
domains of risk, includes nine chapters with discussion of Climate
governance and climate change and society; Climate change and the
politics of uncertainty; Risk complexity and governance in mountain
environments; On the edge: Coastal governance and risk and
Governance of megacity disaster risks, among other important
topics. Part III discusses directions for further advancement in
risk governance, with ten chapters on such topics as the transition
From risk society to security society; Governing risk tolerability;
Risk and adaptive planning for coastal cities; Profiling risk
governance in natural hazards contexts; Confronting the risk of
large disasters in nature and Transitions into and out of a crisis
mode of socio-ecological systems. The book presents a comprehensive
examination of the complexity of both risk and environmental
policy-making and of their multiple-and not always
visible-interactions in the context of social-ecological systems.
Just as important, it also addresses unseen and neglected
complementarities between regulatory policy-making and ordinary
individual decision-making through the actions of nongovernmental
actors. A range of distinguished scholars from a diverse set of
disciplines have contributed to the book with their expertise in
many areas, including disaster studies, emergency planning and
management, ecology, sustainability, environmental planning and
management, climate change, geography, spatial planning,
development studies, economy, political sciences, public
administration, communication, as well as physics and geology.
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