Detlef Müller-Mahn is Professor of Social Geography and Director of ZENEB (Center for Natural Risks and Development Bayreuth) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Preface 1. Space Matters! Impacts for Risk Governance 2. Riskscapes: The Spatial Dimensions of Risk 3. A Place for Space in Risk Research - The Example of Discourse Analysis Approaches 4. Risk, Space and System Theory: Communication and management of natural hazards 5. The Certainty of Uncertainty: Topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka's civil war 6. Anxiety and Risk: Pandemics in the 21st century 7. Ungoverned Territories - The construction of spaces of risk in the 'War on Terrorism' 8. Spaces of Risk and Cultures of Resilience - HIV/AIDS and Adherence in Botswana9. Risk as a Technology of Power: FRONTEX as an example of the de-politicization of EU migration regimes10. An impossible site? Understanding risk and its geographies in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo11. Boundary-making as a Strategy for Risk Reduction in Conflict-prone Spaces12. Bethinking Oneself of the Risk of (Physical) Geography 13. Space and Time: Coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management?14. Making Sense of the Spatial Dimensions of Risk