Several contradictions pose problems of synthesis and integration for agents of governance but keep the field buoyant with possibilities of theoretical and practical innovation. This chapter suggests that expanded dialog and collaboration among the different research and policy communities should be encouraged with a view to resolving some of the existing contradictions of discourse and practice while learning ways of accommodating megacity societies to those that remain.
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Mitchell, J. K. (2015). Governance of megacity disaster risks: Confronting the contradictionshapte. In Risk Governance: The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology (pp. 413–439). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9328-5_22
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