Vulnerability conditions and risk representations in Latin-America: Framing the territorializing urban risk

► The production of risk and territory is both material and discursive. ► Risk discourses or representations are performative: they operate the world. ► Risk is a result and a driver of society and its relations with the environment. ► The territorialization framework situates and politicizes risk production. ► Facts and meanings drive equally the politics of risk, its management and policy.