Key Concepts for Critical Infrastructure Research

Jens Ivo Engels

ISBN 10: 3658229195 / ISBN 13: 9783658229191

Published by Springer, Berlin, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Key Concepts for Critical Infrastructure Research
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Springer VS
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658229195
• ISBN 13: 9783658229191
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 211W x 149H x 5D millimeters 211 millimeters width by 149 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 110 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.