Risk management and collapse risk concept as transformation tools for sustainability

LUCIANO VILLALBA

Stockholm

Conferencia; Transformations 2015. People and the planet in the Anthropocene; 2015

Stockholm Resilience Center

In this work, we analyse the transformation role of risk management at different territory scales and in different fields: health and natural hazards. Presenting application examples of different risk management approaches, we show the power of risk management to impulse significant changes in people behaviour, organisation and habits. We then explore how this transformation power can be used in promoting a transition towards a more sustainable future at local and regional scales, its possibilities and limitations. In a second part, we analyse how the concept of Anthropocene impact on the risk concept definition in the natural hazards field, as the classical division of endogenous/exogenous factors is erased, and its implications for the definition of a risk management approach to enhance sustainability. Finally, we tempt to define the civilisation collapse risk notion and evaluate how it could be used to design an umbrella strategy for a global transformation towards sustainability.