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Urbano 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 ISBN 978-94-017-9327-8 ISBN 978-94-017-9328-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9328-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014953263 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 T his work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) 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. vii 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. ix
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