Europe's Infrastructure Transition
Economy, War, Nature
Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. A 2006 power line failure in northern Germany closed lights in Portugal in a matter of seconds. Several Russian-Ukrainian gas crises shocked politicians, entrepreneurs, and citizens thousands of kilometers away in Germany, France, and Italy. This book argues that present-day infrastructure vulnerabilities resulted from choices of infrastructure builders in the past. It inquires which, and whose, vulnerabilities they perceived, negotiated, prioritized, and inscribed in Europe's critical infrastructure. It does not take 'Europe' for granted,…
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Weitere Autoren: Kaijser, Arne / Vleuten, Erik van der
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30800-8
- EAN: 9780230308008
- Produktnummer: 27646155
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D2.5 cm 920 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 920
Über den Autor
Per Högselius is Associate Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research has focused on international aspects and in particular East-West relations in the history of science, technology, and environment. Most recently he published Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (2013). Arne Kaijser is Professor of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests concern infrastructure, institutions, and environment in historical perspective. Together with Erik van der Vleuten he edited Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (2006). Erik van der Vleuten is Professor of History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology (SHT). In 2013-2015 he chaired the Pan-European research network Tensions of Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe. With Högselius and Kaijser he authored Europe's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature (2015).
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