"Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: %22risk society%22, the Czech experience and the European context" . . . "CZ - \u010Cesk\u00E1 republika" . "RIV/44555601:13440/13:43885058!RIV14-GA0-13440___" . . "http://web.natur.cuni.cz/gis/aucg/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&id=24:issue-22013&Itemid=99" . . "Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: %22risk society%22, the Czech experience and the European context"@en . . "[53D6315D4162]" . . . . "14"^^ . "48" . . . . . "Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geographica" . "P(GP13-02080P)" . "Ra\u0161ka, Pavel" . . "1"^^ . "13440" . "Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: %22risk society%22, the Czech experience and the European context" . "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 into international 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 a discussion 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 legal frameworks and strategies into the national and regional policies. Second, we analysed social perception of natural risks in a case study of the city of \u00DAst\u00ED nad Labem in northern Czechia." . "2" . . . . "1"^^ . "Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: %22risk society%22, the Czech experience and the European context"@en . "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 into international 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 a discussion 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 legal frameworks and strategies into the national and regional policies. Second, we analysed social perception of natural risks in a case study of the city of \u00DAst\u00ED nad Labem in northern Czechia."@en . "natural risk, risk society, legal documents, social perception, Czechia"@en . "0300-5402" . . "RIV/44555601:13440/13:43885058" . . "96947" .