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Introduction to ‘Urban Disaster Resilience and Security—Addressing Risks in Societies’ Read chapter Read first chapter

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20. Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings

Authors : Florian Neisser, Detlef Müller-Mahn

Published in: Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

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Abstract

A central challenge of urban risk governance lies in the complexity of the overlapping of multiple risks. This problem is particularly relevant and obvious in urban infrastructure settings. The concept of riskscapes addresses and integrates various aspects of risks: the overlapping of different risks, the multiplicity of perspectives on the same spatial area and spatially different meanings and consequences. An important aspect of the riskscapes concept lies in the range of perspectives regarding the risks. This article takes a closer look at aspects of multiplicity and overlaps of different riskscapes as well as the spatial and temporal dynamics of risks and riskscapes while turning to empirical findings on the transportation of hazardous goods. This is discussed with a specific focus on stationary and mobile forms of risk in the context of urban infrastructures. Based on a comparison of risk management in the Netherlands and in Germany, an aligned risk management strategy in regard to spatial planning and hazardous incidents regulation is recommendable. A context-sensitive, practice-oriented, and socio-spatial understanding of risks is necessary to grasp the context of specific urban situations and to get an in-depth understanding of risk situations—including the aspects stationary and mobile risks.

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Footnotes
1
The tension between chances and risks is different with regard to urban areas and rural areas. Rural areas might not have the same advantages from transport lines as urban areas do, where the goods are shipped to and away from. Rural areas might just be passed through and are only spaces to be overcome, while the side effects are observable nevertheless. Since this chapter (and the main part of the book) focuses on urban risks, this cannot be elaborated any further although it is an important issue.
 
2
Primary effects are characterized by direct impacts by hazardous materials themselves. In the case of an accident, subjects of protection (Schutzgüter; humans, real assets, and the environment) may be affected directly, by explosions, chemical burns or contamination, for example. Secondary effects may be additional consequences such as temporally delayed explosions and fires (Söder 1996, 7; Wiesmann 1995).
 
3
Meaning external to hazardous (stationary) facilities.
 
4
It has to be noted that the implementation of the Seveso directive varies greatly among different countries (Haastrup 1994, p. 495).
 
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Metadata
Title
Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings
Authors
Florian Neisser
Detlef Müller-Mahn
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-68605-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-68606-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68606-6_20