Risk Governance : The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology - Fra.Paleo, Urbano; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I. Risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, diversity and change -- Chapter 2: Risk governance and resilience: New approaches to cope with uncertainty and ambiguity -- Chapter 3: The problem of governance in the risk society: Envisaging strategies, managing not-knowing Chapter 4: Making sense of decentralization: Coping with the complexities of the urban environment -- Chapter 5: Local governance and soft infrastructure for sustainability and resilience -- Chapter 6: Understanding and conceptualizing risk in large-scale social-ecological systems -- Chapter 7: Interest, interest, whose interest is at risk? Risk governance, issues management, and the fully functioning society -- Chapter 8: The emergence of civil society: Networks in disasters, mitigation, and recovery -- Chapter 9: Risk governance and the integration of different types of knowledge -- Chapter 10: Educational governance in disaster risk reduction Chapter 11: The disaster epidemic -- Chapter 12: An evaluation of risk management and emergency management. Relying on the concept of comprehensive vulnerability management for an integrated perspective -- Chapter 13: Leadership and collaborative governance in managing emergencies and crises -- Chapter 14: Structure, process, and agency in the evaluation of risk governance -- Part II. Governance in regions and domains of risk -- Chapter 15: Climate governance and climate change and society -- Chapter 16: Climate change and the politics of uncertainty: Lessons from Iraq -- Chapter 17: Water risk management, governance, IWRM and implementation -- Chapter 18: The emergence of landscape governance in society-environment relationships -- Chapter 19: Risk complexity and governance in mountain environments -- Chapter 20: On the edge: Coastal governance and risk Chapter 21: Ocean governance and risk management -- Chapter 22: Governance of megacity disaster risks: Confronting the contradictions -- Chapter 23: Natech disaster risk reduction: Can integrated risk governance help? -- Part III. Directions for further advancement in risk governance -- Chapter 24: From risk society to security society -- Chapter 25: Governing risk tolerability -- Chapter 26: Risk and adaptive planning for coastal cities -- Chapter 27: Risk governance and development -- Chapter 28: Profiling risk governance in natural hazards contexts -- Chapter 29: Risk governance and the social amplification of risk: A commentary -- Chapter 30: Help or hindrance? The contribution of the resilience approach to risk governance -- Chapter 31: Risk mitigation: We are all going to die -- Chapter 32: Confronting the risk of large disasters in nature -- Chapter 33: Transitions into and out of a crisis mode of socio-ecological systems -- About the editor -- Index.
Keywords: Environmental management; Sociology; Natural disasters; Physical geography; Political science; Regional planning; Urban planning; Environmental Management; Sociology, general; Natural Hazards; Earth System Sciences; Political Science; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning