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The Making of Europe''s Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities

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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, but actively investigates which countries and peoples were historically connected in joint interdependency, and why. In short, this collection unravels the simultaneous historical shaping of infrastructure, common vulnerabilities, and Europe.

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  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Nov 2013
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781137358721

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Per Högselius is Associate Professor at the Division of History of Science Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 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).   Anique Hommels is Associate Professor at the Science Technology & Society (MUSTS) research group Maastricht University the Netherlands. She has previously published Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change (2005). Her current research focuses on vulnerability in technological cultures urban disasters and standardization in emergency communication.   Arne Kaijser is Professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 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. Erik studies the mutual shaping of infrastructure societal and environmental changes.

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