The sociotechnical constitution of resilience : a new perspective on governing risk and disaster /: a new perspective on governing risk and disaster. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sulfikar Amir.
• Editors: Amir, Sulfikar
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.346; Disaster relief; Resilience (Personality trait)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811085093
• Related ISBNs: 9789811085086
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