Table Of ContentUrbano Fra.Paleo E ditor
Risk
Governance
The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and
Ecology
Risk Governance
Urbano Fra.Paleo
Editor
Risk Governance
The Articulation of Hazard, Politics
and Ecology
Editor
Urbano Fra.Paleo
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Extremadura
Cáceres , Spain
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To Encarnación, whose plans have shaped
the present
To Belén, who has seen plans happen or
vanish and is able to anticipate the risks
To Valeria, whose indecisive plans are
shaping an uncertain time
Only after understanding can we take action.
About the Editor
U rbano Fra.Paleo is Professor in Human Geography at the University of
Extremadura, Spain. He is also Visiting Professor at the UN-mandated University
for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica. He worked at the United States Geological
Survey in Denver (1995) and Hawaii (1999) and was Research Associate at the
Environment Institute of the University of Denver (1996). Fra.Paleo was Fellow of
the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
in 2005. In 2009, he received the Award for Sustainable Actions in Social
Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Award by the University of Santiago de
Compostela. Since 2011, he is a member of the Scientifi c Committee of the
Integrated Risk Governance (IRG) Project, an initiative within the International
Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and of
the Disaster Risk Reduction Thematic Group within the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Urbano Fra.Paleo has edited the book B uilding
Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural
Hazards in 2009, a volume that addresses the adoption of spatial planning as a
p roactive approach to deal with risk exposure. His interests lie in the collaborative
evaluation of risk governance and the development of proactive strategies of mitiga-
tion and adaptation to risk from natural hazards.
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Acknowledgements
I gratefully acknowledge those scholars who generously contributed their time and
expertise to review the manuscripts of the book chapters and provided valuable
feedback to the authors. Thoughtful comments and constructive input after careful
reading helped to sharpen analysis and rethink many issues. I am grateful to anony-
mous reviewers and to the scholars listed below.
A bdul-Akeem Sadiq, Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis (IUPUI), United States of America
D r. Anne Marie O’Hagan, Researcher at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research
Centre, University College Cork, Ireland
Claudia Baldwin, Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Professor David Sanderson from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Professor Lance Gunderson from Emory University, United States of America
Professor John Fitzgibbon from the University of Guelph, Canada
Nicole Gurran, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia
D r. Michael Brett-Crowther, Editor of the International Journal of Environmental
Studies
Michael Palenchar from the University of Tennessee, United States of America
Murray Lee, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia
R.B. Singh, Associate Professor at the University of Delhi, India
Dr. Russel Reichelt, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Great Barrier Reef Marine
Park Authority, Australia
Annett Steinführer, Researcher at the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI),
Germany
Professor Tim Doyle from the University of Adelaide, Australia
Professor William Waugh from Georgia State University, United States of America
Professor Yvonne Rydin from University College London, United Kingdom
However, the fi nal responsibility for the editing and for any errors is mine
entirely.
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Description:This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces di
