By popular demand I have listed below the references I gathered from a recent call for help on risk. Thanks to all those who contributed. I make no apologies for the format – copy and paste job, I’m afraid. Enjoy! PS in the spirit of reciprocity – please do leave further references as comments below.
- Von Clausewitz – On War Volume 3 (see Guide to Tactics – Relation between Magnitude and Certainty of the Result) 283-284
- Peter Read’s book Returning to Nothing is a good look at the consequences of living is high-risk environmental areas: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p_k4AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=peter+read+lost+places&source=bl&ots=XfZxwSngPd&sig=br3egngxXAoIvefyoeBvrW1k3nM&hl=en&ei=VSlHTav1B4eU4Aa2q53xDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Biopolitics of Security Research Network website: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/bos/index.htm
- Risk in the second edition of Clifford et al. ‘Key Concepts in Geography’ – one from a physical geography perspective and another from a human geog perspective.
- Shaun French and James Kneale: Excessive financialisation: insuring lifestyles, enlivening subjects,
and everyday spaces of biosocial excess Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2009, volume 27, - Courtesy of RGS-IBG journals
Brun C 2009 A geographers’ imperative? Research and action in the aftermath of disaster The Geographical Journal 175 196–207
Donovan D 2010 Doing social volcanology: exploring volcanic culture in Indonesia Area 42 117–126
Donovan A and Oppenheimer C 2011 The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption and the reconstruction of geography The Geographical Journal 177 4-11
Furedi F 2007 The changing meaning of disaster Area 39 482–489
Greenhough B Jazeel T Massey D 2005 Introduction: geographical encounters with the Indian Ocean tsunami The Geographical Journal 171 369–386
Gregory D 2010 War and peace Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 154–186
Lane S Odoni N Landstrom C Whatmore S J Ward N and Bradley S 2011 Doing flood risk science differently: an experiment in radical scientific method Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36 15-36.
Le Billon P and Waizenegger A 2007 Peace in the wake of disaster? Secessionist conflicts and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 411–427
Mercer A et al 2008 Reflections on use of participatory research for disaster risk reduction Area 40 172–183
O’Brien G O’Keefe P and Rose J 2008 The vulnerable society Area 40 520–521
Reimer S 1998 Working in a risk society Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 23 116–127
- Beck U, 1992, Risk society: towards a new modernity (Sage, London)
- Wynne B. (1996) May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Lay-Expert Knowledge. pp27-43 in Lash S., Szerszynski B, and Wynne B. [eds] Divide Risk, environment and modernity: towards a new ecology. SAGE publications, London.
- Regions of Risk: a geographical introduction to disasters, Kenneth Hewitt, 1997;
- Spatiality of Risk, Env and Plan A, 2008, 40.
- Naomi Klein’s TED Talk “Addicted to Risk” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhL7P7w3as
The Culture of Enthusiasm 
Eriksen, C. and N. Gill (2010) “Bushfire and Everyday Life: Examining the Awareness-Action ‘Gap’ in Changing Rural Landscapes.” Geoforum 41(5): 814-825.
Eriksen, C., N. Gill, and L. Head (2010) “The Gendered Dimensions of Bushfire in Changing Rural Landscapes in Australia.” Journal of Rural Studies 26(4): 332-342.
A few years ago, I wrote a short article called “Defining Risk” from a flood risk reduction perspective. See http://www.ilankelman.org/abstracts/kelman2003frn.pdf
Apologies for the puns at the beginning, plus note that, in the equations, the multiplication signs became apostrophes. Additionally, the literature that I draw on is obviously focused on the flood topic. There is, of course, decades of other perspectives on risk from many other viewpoints.
Nonetheless, I hope that the article stimulates debate amongst a non-specialist audience, which was its main point. But it could easily be updated or emulated with references and notions from the many, much wider risk perspectives and definitions that exist.
With best wishes,
Ilan