Key Concepts for Critical Infrastructure Research
Published on 16. July 2018
V, 62 pages
978-3-658-22920-7 (ISBN)
Description
The discussion of critical infrastructures is dominated by the use of the interlinked concepts "criticality", "vulnerability", "resilience", and "preparedness and prevention". These terms can be detected in public discourse as well as in scientific debates. Often, they are used simultaneously in a normative as well as in a descriptive way. The PhD candidates of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group KRITIS at Technische Universität Darmstadt examine these concepts systematically one by one and discuss the links between them. They give a critical overview over the uses and limitations of these concepts. Informed by the approaches in Science and Technology Studies, they focus on the interrelatedness of technology and society. The book aims at creating a common ground for interdisciplinary infrastructure research. The authors are from history, philosophy, political science, civil engineering, urban and spatial planning and computer science.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
V, 62 p.
File size
1,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-658-22920-7 (9783658229207)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-22920-7
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Jens Ivo Engels
Key Concepts for Critical Infrastructure Research
Book
07/2018
Springer VS
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Person
Dr. Jens Ivo Engels is a professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and a spokesperson of the Research Training Group KRITIS.
Content
Criticality.- Vulnerability.- Resilience.- Preparedness and Prevention.- Relations between the Concepts.
