Geographies of Risk: Risk, Hazards and Resilience PDF

GEOG 254 Society and Environment 08 Geographies of Risk: Risk, Hazards and Resilience WORLD RISK INDEX: Ideas RISK = Exposure x Vulnerability R= E x V Six ways in which social, economic, cultural, and political processes increase vulnerability to natural hazards: Poo...

GEOG 254 Society and Environment 08 Geographies of Risk: Risk, Hazards and Resilience WORLD RISK INDEX: Ideas RISK = Exposure x Vulnerability R= E x V Six ways in which social, economic, cultural, and political processes increase vulnerability to natural hazards: Poor Governance Poverty Social Exclusion War and Violent Conflict Megacities Environmental Degradation “(2005 U.S. Hurricane) Katrina was not an equal opportunity storm.“ Neil Smith 2006 in SSRC’s Forum on Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences 2006 Argument: There’s no such thing as a natural disaster. “It is generally accepted among environmental geographers that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. In every phase and aspect of a disaster — causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and response, and reconstruction the contours of disaster and the difference between who lives and who dies is to a greater or lesser extent a social calculus.”  The Shock Doctrine and Disaster Capitalism By Naomi Klein 2007 “The “shock doctrine” is the political strategy of using large- “The way I define disaster capitalism is scale crises to push through really straightforward: It describes the way policies that systematically private industries spring up to directly deepen inequality, enrich elites, and profit from large-scale crises. Disaster undercut everyone else. In moments of profiteering and war profiteering isn’t a crisis, people tend to focus on the daily new concept, but it really deepened under emergencies of surviving that crisis, the Bush administration” whatever it is, and tend to put too much trust in those in power. We take our eyes Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism off the ball a little bit in moments of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlAL26b VOzM crisis.” How can this idea help us understand Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine, current global crises and trends? 2007 WORLD RISK INDEX: The Calculation  WORLD RISK INDEX TRAFFIC LIGHT TYPOLOGY Examples? RISK = Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia Exposure x Vulnerability RISK = Australia, New Zealand, Italy Exposure x Vulnerability RISK = Afghanistan, Mozambique, Tanzania. Exposure x Vulnerability RISK = Japan, the Netherlands, Chile Exposure x Vulnerability (2) RISK = Philippines, Guatemala, Bangladesh Exposure x Vulnerability