List of figures and tables ..................................... xi
List of contributors ......................................... xiii
Preface ...................................................... xvii
1 Space matters! Impacts for risk governance
ORTWIN RENN AND ANDREAS KLINKE ............................... 1
2 Riskscapes: the spatial dimensions of risk
DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN AND JONATHAN EVERTS ...................... 22
3 A place for space in risk research: the example of
discourse analysis approaches
PETER WEICHHART AND KARL-MICHAEL HÖFERL ..................... 37
4 Risk, space and system theory: communication and
management of natural hazards
JÜRGEN POHL, SWEN ZEHETMAIR AND JULIA MAYER ................. 52
5 The certainty of uncertainty: topographies of risk and
landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka's civil war
BENEDIKT KORF ............................................... 68
6 Anxiety and risk: pandemics in the twenty-first century
JONATHAN EVERTS ............................................. 82
7 Ungoverned territories: the construction of spaces of risk
in the 'war on terrorism'
CONRAD SCHETTER ............................................. 97
8 Spaces of risk and cultures of resilience: HIV/AIDS and
adherence in Botswana
FRED KRÜGER ................................................ 109
9 Risk as a technology of power: FRONTEX as an example of
the depoliticization of EU migration regimes
BERND BELINA AND JUDITH MIGGELBRINK ........................ 124
10 An impossible site? Understanding risk and its
geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
MARTIN DOEVENSPECK ......................................... 137
11 Boundary-making as a strategy for risk reduction in
conflict-prone spaces
HERMANN KREUTZMANN ......................................... 154
12 Bethinking oneself of the risk of (physical) geography
BARBARA ZAHNEN ............................................. 172
13 Space and time: coupling dimensions in natural hazard
risk management?
SVEN FUCHS AND MARGRETH KEILER ............................. 189
14 Making sense of the spatial dimensions of risk
DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN, JONATHAN EVERTS AND MARTIN
DOEVENSPECK ................................................ 202
References .................................................... 208
Index ......................................................... 241
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