Planetary disasters

Moving the UN disaster risk reduction framework into cosmopolitised reality

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ID4329248
AuthorsSabine Selchow (0000-0002-2700-8702, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume31
Issue1
Pages28-48
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644016.2020.1868819
OpenAlexW3119530192
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

I aim to advance the governance of disasters by making it correspond with cosmopolitised reality. Following Ulrich Beck, this correspondence is essential for handling disasters in a constructive way because cosmopolitised reality does not simply challenge existing institutional settings; it reflexively undermines them. I achieve my aim by intervening into a distinct part of the disaster governance discourse, the UN Disaster Risk Reduction Framework discourse. Grounded in a systematic analysis of this discourse, I identify the concept ‘systemic risk’ as a discursive hook to introduce a new concept, ‘planetary disaster’. ‘Planetary disaster’ inscribes the distinctly integrated nature of cosmopolitised reality into the idea of ‘disaster’. With that, it opens new horizons in imagining disaster governance and its institutions

Business · Constructive · Corporate governance · Disaster risk reduction · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Global Security and Public Health · Risk Perception and Management

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