"Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and state failure"-- Provided by publisher.

Space matters! Impacts for risk governance -- Riskscapes : the spatial dimensions of risk -- The place for space in risk research: the example of discourse analysis approaches -- Risk, space and system theory : communication and management of natural hazards -- The certainty of uncertainty : topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka's civil war -- Anxiety and risk : pandemics in the twenty-first century -- Ungovemed territories: the construction of spaces of risk in the ẁar on terrorism' -- Spaces of risk and cultures of resilience : HIV/AIDS and adherence in Botswana -- Risk as a technology of power : FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes -- The impossible site? Understanding risk and its geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Boundary-making as a strategy for risk reduction in conflict-prone spaces -- Bethinking oneself of the risk of (physical) geography -- Space and time: coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management? -- Making sense of the spatial dimensions of risk.