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Vulnerability in technological cultures : new directions in research and governance /
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Inside technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Studying vulnerability in technological cultures / Wiebe Bijker, Anique Hommels, and Jessica Mesman
- Agricultural change in a South Indian village : an account of the multiplicity of vulnerable livelihoods / Julia Quartz
- Cultural politics of vulnerability : historical-ethnography of dearth and debt, and farmers' suicides in India / Esha Shah
- Relocation of vulnerability in neonatal intensive care medicine / Jessica Mesman
- Vulnerability and development : Bhopal's lasting legacy / Sheila Jasanoff
- Narratives of vulnerability and violence : retelling the Gujarat riots / Shiv Visvanathan and Teesta Setelvad
- Creative dissent : linking vulnerability and knowledge in India / C. Shambu Prasad
- Resilience : contingency, complexity, and practice / Stephen Healy and Jessica Mesman
- Entrainment, imagination, and vulnerability : lessons from large-scale accidents in the offshore industry / Ger Wackers
- Vulnerable practices : organizing through bricolage in railroad maintenance / Johan M. Sanne
- Governing a vulnerable society : toward a precaution-based approach / Gerard de Vries, Imrat Verhoeven, and Martin Boeckhout
- Regulating risks by rules : compliance and negotiated drift in the Dutch chemical industry under the Seveso regime / Anique Hommels [and others]
- Dealing with vulnerability : balancing prevention with resilience as a method of governance / Ger Palmboom and Dick Willems
- A pragmatist approach to the governance of vulnerability / Jozef Keulartz and Maartje Schermer
- From sustainability to transformation : dynamics and diversity in reflexive governance of vulnerability / Andy Stirling.