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Author:   Sulfikar Amir
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789811341731

ISBN 10:   9811341737
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of 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.

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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. 

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