Dublin Core
Titre
Understanding urban risks as encompassing socio-ecological phenomena.
Sujet
[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography
Place-based approach
contextual framework
performative risks
vulnerability dynamics
epistemology
Description
The multi-scale biophysical, social and political-economic causal factors that shape damages in the case of landslides in Caracas and Quito can be assessed with the PAR model. But we need to put the stress on two more dimensions that could improve it. 1- Representations and discourses on risks, its management and policies, contribute to the framing of vulnerability. Timeline for risk construction is not unidirectional. Risks are a never-end becoming process. 2- Humanizing environment (therefore shaping risks) relies on the way human - environment interactions are addressed by people, institutions or even researchers. Epistemological backgrounds do matter. The territorialisation of risks can be a useful conceptual framework to figure out the main vulnerability drivers in a place. It corresponds to the ways risks are produced (multi-layered vulnerability); to the implications of risks (as instruments that shape vulnerability); and to the ways different actors conceptualize risks (the framing of research object influences vulnerability).
Créateur
Rebotier, Julien
Source
ICARUS II conference - Climate vulnerability and adaptation
Date
2011-05-04
Langue
ENG
Type
conference, seminar, workshop communication
Identifiant
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00601771
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/60/17/71/PDF/Rebotier_Oral_Presentation_ICARUS_II.pdf
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/60/17/71/PDF/Rebotier_Paper_ICARUS2_1.pdf
Couverture
Ann Arbor
United States