Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience

A New Perspective on Governing Risk and Disaster

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-05-31
Mått148 x 210 x 26 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor289
Upplaga18001
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811085086

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Sulfikar Amir is an Associate Professor of science, technology, and society in the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include science and technology studies, development, globalisation, disaster, risk, resilience, and infrastructure and city studies. He is the author of 'The Technological State in Indonesia: the Co-constitution of High Technology and Authoritarian Politics'. His ongoing project explores the production of hidden vulnerability in the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

Introduction: Resilience as Sociotechnical Construct.- PART 1 DISSECTING RESILIENCE.- What (Sociotechnical) Resilience is Made of: Personal Trajectories and Erathquake Risk Mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Sociotechnical Resilience—From Recovery to Adaptation and Beyond: the Journey So Far….- Mapping Sociotechnical Resilience.- PART 2 DISRUPTED ENVIRONMENTS.- Weather Ready Nation or Ready Weather Agency?: Emphatic Accuracy and Sociotechnical Resilience in the National Weather Service.- Coping with Indonesia’s Mudflow Disaster.- PART 3 INFORMATIONAL RELATIONS.- Information Infrastructure and Resilience in American Disaster Plans.- An Audience Perspective on Disaster Response.- PART 4 ENGINEERED SYSTEMS.- Post-Fukushima Controversy on SPEEDI System: Contested Imaginary of Real-Time Simulation Technology for Emergency Radiation Protection.- Saving Onagawa: Sociotechnical Resilience in the 3.11 Disaster.- PART 5 URBAN LIFE.- An SME Driven Approach to Adopting Measures of Flood Resilience: A UK-Based Perspective.- How Resilience Discourses Shape Cities: the Case of Resilient Rotterdam.