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Hazard mitigation includes interventions made in advance of disasters to prevent or reduce the potential for physical harm and social disruption. There are two major types of hazard mitigation.
- Organizational Risk: from Risk Analysis to Risk Governance
- Public Trust: The Relation Between Experts and Laypeople
- Risk and Democracy: The Importance of Framing
- Produced Risk: Beyond Realism and Constructivism
- Governmentality: Toward An Individualized Risk Management
To conceptualize an object as a risk entails seeing it as manageable and governable (Baldwin and Cave 1999; Hood et al. 2001; Hutter 2001; Lidskog et al. 2009). Risk creates space for action as it opens the future for calculation, deliberation, and decision making. In this sense, regulation “enrolls” futures and shapes policy formulations (Wynne 19...
Technical risk analysis builds on a sharp boundary between experts and laypeople. Laypeople do not have access to all the knowledge possessed by experts and therefore draw different conclusions about risks, their ordinariness, magnitudes, and impact. In technical risk analysis, scientific knowledge is the norm and this is what experts have but layp...
How risks are defined is a central topic for sociology to study. The reason for this is that it determines what groups and what competences are considered relevant for taking a stand and making decisions (Lidskog et al. 2011). Sociology contributes to risk analysis by showing how definitions of risks shape social relations and distribute powers to ...
An ongoing controversy in risk research is between realism and social constructivism. Do risks possess physical characteristics that exist independently of cultural and social contexts, including actors’ perceptions, or are they socially and culturally constructed attributes, produced and shaped by these contexts? Technical risk analysis is based o...
Ulrich Beck emphasizes that the current society is increasingly individualized, in the sense that individuals are seen as being responsible creators of their own lives and are therefore constantly required to make their own decisions. “The choosing, deciding, shaping human being who aspires to be the author of his or her own life, the creator of an...
Jan 1, 2015 · The collection of chapter contributions in Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society reflects how personal and corporate exposure factors, short-term reactions, and longer term responses mediate the manner in which people get understood as vulnerable, resilient, or otherwise.
- Andrew E. Collins, Bernard Manyena, Bernard Manyena, Janaka Jayawickrama, Janaka Jayawickrama, Saman...
- 2015
Feb 27, 2004 · This paper brings together and examines the dominant and recurring ideas about home represented in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. It raises the question whether or not home is (a) place(s), (a) space(s), feeling(s), practices, and/or an active state of state of being in the world?
Nov 2, 2021 · Tornadoes, fires, plane crashes, train derailments, hazardous chemical releases, and several other unexpected, acute onset emergencies and disasters served as natural experiments for the study of individual and collective behavior (Knowles, 2013).
- Lori Peek, Tricia Wachtendorf, Michelle Annette Meyer
- 2021
Aug 29, 2018 · While risks are attributable to positive human intention, so that potential harm is an unintended side effect in the production of benefits, threats are attributable to ill-intentioned actors, deliberately acting to cause damage to others.
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Jun 12, 2020 · As a contribution toward this framework, we define home as an emplaced relationship that prioritizes certain socio-material contexts over others, by virtue of the emotional, affective and practical values attached to them, in forms and degrees that change over space and time.
