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Author:   Urbano Fra.Paleo
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   8.073kg
ISBN:  

9789402403725

ISBN 10:   9402403728
Pages:   515
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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.

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