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AESOP 2007: Planning for the risk society
AESOP is a network of universities and university departments that teach and conduct research within the field of urban and regional planning. The network exists to promote the development of the teaching curricula and research within the Member Schools through regular dialogue, exchange visits and the dissemination of research and best practice. These aims are achieved through an Annual Congress where staff and students make presentations and discuss papers on European, national, regional and local spatial planning issues, as well as debates on planning curricula. A three-day Ph.D workshop precedes the Congress. The AESOP Newsletter provides information on the activities of member schools, reports of AESOP Working Groups and other issues.
| What | Planning Risk Society |
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| When |
2007-07-11 00:00
to 2007-07-14 00:00 |
| Where | University Congress Center, University "Federico II", Napoli, Italy |
| Contact Name | G.P. Pubbliche Relazioni s.r.l |
| Contact Email | aesop07napoli@unina.it |
| Contact Phone | +39 081 2538626 |
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"Planning for the risk society"
The conference’s main theme, the risk, is not just a concern for the hosting city, but more generally a challenging issue to planning theorists and practitioners.
As a concept, risk includes different meanings and dimensions, such as natural risk, security, human risk on the environment, conflicts and social marginality in peripheral areas. In this perspective, it is to be connected to the more “classic” issue of uncertainty as a basic dimension of planning practice, rising new questions on contemporary metropolitan government all over Europe. Studies on this matter – such as Beck’s and Giddens’s in the field of social sciences – open a new theoretical framework where the relation between planning and ethics becomes a key-issue, in a planning perspective based on shared values such as trust, cooperation and mutual care.
Consequently, risk deals also with social instability, marginality and fragmentation issues, as some recent UE urban policies have stressed out focusing on strategies of cooperation, inclusion and partnerships.
As a local mainframe, risk is mainly related to the volcanic risk in Napoli metro area: in these past years, some cultural shift occurred in plans and policies dealing with natural risk, moving from an “emergency planning ideology” to a deeper concern for environmental and landscape planning issues, as well as local-based development policies.
All over Europe, in times of global changes and conflicts, this concern for risk shows different declinations, and the Aesop Conference can be a starting point to put the debate forward with original and innovative research contributions
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