Spatiality of Risk

November, Valérie

doi:10.1068/a4194

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“…Spatial variability in geographic events can be revealed with semiparametric Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression (sGWPR), models that can combine both spatially varying and spatially non-varying parameters [21,[53][54][55]. Indeed, measuring spatial relationships between socio-economic and environmental factors on the one hand and health events on the other is a fairly new scientific endeavour and often very challenging; but forms a crucial part of spatial epidemiology [20,48,56]. To emphasize this point, air quality within urban environments involves a mixture of gaseous and particulate concentrations that are affected by a variety of emission sources, local topographies, and meteorological conditions [4,6,26,29,30,38,42,43,57].…”

Section: Spatiality Hazard/injury Distribution and Spatial Orderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiality in Health: The Distribution of Health Conditions Associated with Electronic Waste Processing Activities at Agbogbloshie, Accra

Adusei

Arko‐Mensah

Dzodzomenyo

et al. 2020

Annals of Global Health

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Background The United Nations Environment Program, UNEP (2005) estimates that between 20 and 50 million tonnes of e-waste are generated annually worldwide, accounting for about 5% of all municipal solid waste. In a recent global waste stream analysis, the composition of global quantity of e-waste generated in 2014 comprised of 1.0 Mt of lamps, 3.0 Mt of Small IT, 6.3 Mt of screens and monitors, 7.0 Mt of temperature exchange equipment (cooling and freezing equipment), 11.8 Mt of large equipment, and 12.8 Mt of small equipment and the global is projected to grow to 49.8 Mt in 2018, with an annual growth rate of 4 to 5 per cent [1, 2]. Not only is this figure representing the fastest growing municipal waste stream, it also has the potential of increasing further. In spite of the unprecedented growth in the global quantities, there is only limited recycling technology for disposal and safe management especially in the developing countries where most of the wastes end up and are recycled by informal means using rudimentary methods [3, 4].

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Section: Spatiality Hazard/injury Distribution and Spatial Orderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiality in Health: The Distribution of Health Conditions Associated with Electronic Waste Processing Activities at Agbogbloshie, Accra

Adusei

Arko‐Mensah

Dzodzomenyo

et al. 2020

Annals of Global Health

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“…Despite its weaknesses, the Seismic Hazard Map has performative capacities: it "does not simply describe an external reality 'out there': (it) also take(s) part in working upon, modifying, and transforming that reality" (Asdal, 2015). As researchers in Geography and STS have noted, a map is a space of conflict and negotiation: the visualization of the risk (however imperfect it is) and the geographical space that it represents co-construct each other: "risks transform spaces and (…) spaces subsequently lead to changes in the nature of risks themselves" (November, 2008(November, : 1523. In practice, the Seismic Hazard Map operates as a major instrument of risk prevention that feeds policy planning at the federal level: it is included in recommendations by the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program 15 (NEHRP), and plays a significant part in the creation of buildings codes 16 by the Building Seismic Safety Council 17 (BSSC) and in the retrofitting guidelines designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).…”

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Modes and Existences in Citizen Science

Mazel-Cabasse

2018

S&TS

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In the Bay Area of San Francisco, the earthquake contours are not easy to define: seismology is still a relatively recent science, and controversies around methods to evaluate the earthquake risk are constant. In this context, the invitation to think about the modes of citizen science is an opportunity to reflect on the modality of hybridized scientific practices as well as the process by which the plurality and complexity of the earthquake characteristics can be articulated, and sometime reconciled. Looking at different existences of the earthquake risk, the paper investigates different assemblages that question the clear-cut distinction between citizen science and science. I’ll situate the question of the mode of citizen science within the larger framework of interdisciplinarity knowledge infrastructures and the work on ‘mode of existence’ initiated by Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers (2009). Expanding our understanding with regard to how CS is performed opens the possibility of reconsidering the specific types of assemblages and infrastructures from which these modes emerge and on their distinct trajectories. It is also an invitation to make visible the integration processes, the communities, and the imaginations that “make” science.

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“…At first glance, it may seem paradoxical that impact increases with distance, but this is what November (November 2008(November , p. 1523) calls the 'spatiality of risk', where impact is not alone determined by proximity to a hazard, but by the constellations of pre-event vulnerability prevalent in the affected societies. Human populations are bound together in complex social, demographic, and economic networks that, in addition to underlying differences in local ecology conditioned by, for instance, latitudinal gradients, reflect this spatial variation.…”

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Past-Forwarding Ancient Calamities. Pathways for Making Archaeology Relevant in Disaster Risk Reduction Research

Riede

2017

Humanities

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Despite the alleged mastery of humans over nature, contemporary societies are acutely vulnerable to natural hazards. In interaction with vulnerable communities, these transform into catastrophes. In a deep historical perspective, human communities of many different kinds have been affected by numerous kinds of natural disasters that may provide useful data for scenario-based risk reduction measures vis-à-vis future calamities. The low frequency of high magnitude hazards necessitates a deep time perspective for understanding both the natural and human dimensions of such events in an evidence-based manner. This paper focusses on the eruption of the Laacher See volcano in western Germany about 13,000 years ago as an example of such a rare, but potentially highly devastating event. It merges Lee Clarke's sociological argument for also thinking about such very rare events in disaster planning and David Staley's notion of thinking historically about the future in order to 'past-forward' such information on past constellations of vulnerability and resilience. 'Past-forwarding' is here intended to signal the use of such deep historical information in concerns for contemporary and future resilience. This paper outlines two pathways for making archaeological information on past extreme environmental events relevant in disaster risk reduction: First, the combination of information from the geosciences and the humanities holds the potential to transform ancient hazards from matters of fact to matters of concern and, hence, to more effectively raise awareness of the issues concerned. Second, in addition to information on past calamities feeding into preparatory scenarios, I argue that the well-established outreach channels available to the humanities (museums, in particular) provide powerful platforms for communication to multiple publics.

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Spatiality of Risk

Cited by 62 publications

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Spatiality in Health: The Distribution of Health Conditions Associated with Electronic Waste Processing Activities at Agbogbloshie, Accra

Spatiality in Health: The Distribution of Health Conditions Associated with Electronic Waste Processing Activities at Agbogbloshie, Accra

Modes and Existences in Citizen Science

Past-Forwarding Ancient Calamities. Pathways for Making Archaeology Relevant in Disaster Risk Reduction Research

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