Risk Governance: The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

Book 图书名称：Risk Governance: The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology
Author 作者：     Urbano Fra.Paleo
Publisher 出版社：  Springer Netherlands
Page 页数： 515
Publishing Date 出版时间： Oct 2014                  
Language 语言：English
Size 大小：10 MB
Format 格式：pdf
ISBN:  978-94-017-9327-8, 978-94-017-9328-5

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.

== Table of contents ==
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Risk Governance and Resilience: New Approaches to Cope with Uncertainty and Ambiguity....Pages 19-41
The Problem of Governance in the Risk Society: Envisaging Strategies, Managing Not-knowing....Pages 43-57
Making Sense of Decentralization: Coping with the Complexities of the Urban Environment....Pages 59-76
Local Governance and Soft Infrastructure for Sustainability and Resilience....Pages 77-97
Understanding and Conceptualizing Risk in Large-Scale Social-Ecological Systems....Pages 99-115
Interest, Interest, Whose Interest Is at Risk? Risk Governance, Issues Management, and the Fully Functioning Society....Pages 117-133
The Emergence of Civil Society: Networks in Disasters, Mitigation, and Recovery....Pages 135-148
Risk Governance and the Integration of Different Types of Knowledge....Pages 149-165
Educational Governance in Disaster Risk Reduction....Pages 167-184
The Disaster Epidemic: Research, Diagnosis, and Prescriptions....Pages 185-200
An Evaluation of Risk Management and Emergency Management. Relying on the Concept of Comprehensive Vulnerability Management for an Integrated Perspective....Pages 201-210
Leadership and Collaborative Governance in Managing Emergencies and Crises....Pages 211-235
Structure, Process, and Agency in the Evaluation of Risk Governance....Pages 237-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Climate Governance and Climate Change and Society....Pages 277-292
Climate Change and the Politics of Uncertainty: Lessons from Iraq....Pages 293-315
Water Risk Management, Governance, IWRM and Implementation....Pages 317-335
The Emergence of Landscape Governance in Society-Environment Relationships....Pages 337-348
Risk Complexity and Governance in Mountain Environments....Pages 349-371
On the Edge: Coastal Governance and Risk....Pages 373-394
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Ocean Governance and Risk Management....Pages 395-412
Governance of Megacity Disaster Risks: Confronting the Contradictions....Pages 413-439
Natech Disaster Risk Reduction: Can Integrated Risk Governance Help?....Pages 441-462
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
From Risk Society to Security Society....Pages 465-467
Governing Risk Tolerability....Pages 469-471
Risk and Adaptive Planning for Coastal Cities....Pages 473-475
Risk Governance and Development....Pages 477-479
Profiling Risk Governance in Natural Hazards Contexts....Pages 481-484
Risk Governance and the Social Amplification of Risk: A Commentary....Pages 485-487
Help or Hindrance? The Contribution of the Resilience Approach to Risk Governance....Pages 489-494
Risk Mitigation: We Are All Going to Die....Pages 495-497
Confronting the Risk of Large Disasters in Nature....Pages 499-502
Transitions Into and Out of a Crisis Mode of Socio-ecological Systems....Pages 503-507
Back Matter....Pages 509-515

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