The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (2013)
Vleuten, Erik van der (Editor)
Högselius, Per (Editor)
Hommels, Anique (Editor)
Kaijser, Arne (Editor)
Vleuten, Erik van der (Editor)
Springer
Physical Details: 314 pages
Language: English
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.
...MoreReview Matthew Adamson (2015) Review of "The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 207-210).
Chapter Lars Heide (2013) Eurocontrol: Negotiating Transnational Air Transportation in Europe. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 191-212).
Chapter Lars Thue (2013) Connections, Criticality and Complexity: Norwegian Electricity in Its European Context. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 213-238).
Chapter Tihomir Mitev; Ivan Tchalakov; Ivaylo Hristov (2013) Bulgarian Power Relations: The Making of a Balkan Power Hub. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 131-156).
Chapter Per Hogselius; Anna Åberg; Arne Kaijser (2013) Natural Gas in Cold War Europe: The Making of a Critical Infrastructure. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 27-61).
Chapter Arne Kaijser; Erik van der Vleuten; Per Högselius; Anique Hommels (2013) Europe’s Infrastructure Vulnerabilities: Comparisons and Connections. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 263-277).
Chapter Arne Kaijser; Erik van der Vleuten; Anique Hommels; Per Högselius (2013) Europe’s Critical Infrastructure and Its Vulnerabilities — Promises, Problems, Paradoxes. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 3-19).
Chapter Katerina Vlantoni; Aristotle Tympas; Stathis Arapostathis; Yiannis Garyfallos (2013) Border-Crossing Electrons: Critical Energy Flows to and from Greece. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 157-183).
Chapter Erik van der Vleuten; Vincent Lagendijk (2013) Inventing Electrical Europe: Interdependencies, Borders, Vulnerabilities. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 62-101).
Chapter Karl-Erik Michelsen (2013) An Uneasy Alliance: Negotiating Infrastructures at the Finnish-Soviet Border. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 108-130).
Chapter Eefje Cleophas; Anique Hommels (2013) In Case of Breakdown: Dreams and Dilemmas of a Common European Standard for Emergency Communication. In: The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (pp. 239-260).
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