Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: "risk society", the Czech experience and the European context

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: "risk society", the Czech experience and the European context
Original language description
Recently, the political and social notion of natural risks and disasters has gained increasing attention, partly as a result of high-magnitude disaster events in last decades. In this regard, the concept of social vulnerability has been incorporated intointernational legal frameworks and strategies of disaster risk reduction, emphasizing that the effective ways to reduce natural risks are inherently related to social action at different institutional levels. The shift in research agenda towards vulnerability assessment and social notion of natural risks seems to be less intensive in Czechia, however, which is due to epistemological traditions in geosciences and regional studies in the country. Therefore, the background aim of this study is to raise adiscussion on emerging research themes for geoscientists and regionalists in the country-wide perspective through the two specific aims. First, we evaluatedthe success of Czech political representatives in implementing the international l
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GP13-02080P" target="_blank" >GP13-02080P: Documentary data sources for research of social perception and adaptation strategies to selected historic natural hazards in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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