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Key Concepts for Critical Infrastructure Research

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Jens Ivo Engels

    1. Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  • Concepts for interdisciplinary infrastructure research

  • Preparedness and Prevention

  • Relations between the Concepts

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-V
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  2. Introduction

    • Jens Ivo Engels
    Pages 1-10

  3. Criticality

    • Kristof Lukitsch, Marcel Müller, Chris Stahlhut
    Pages 11-20

  4. Vulnerability

    • Stephanie Eifert, Alice Knauf, Nadja Thiessen
    Pages 21-29

  5. Resilience

    • Ivonne Elsner, Andreas Huck, Manas Marathe
    Pages 31-38

  6. Preparedness & Prevention

    • Arturo Crespo, Marcus Dombois, Jan Henning
    Pages 39-44

  7. Relations between the Concepts

    • Jens Ivo Engels, Kristof Lukitsch, Marcel Müller, Chris Stahlhut, Stephanie Eifert, Alice Knauf et al.
    Pages 45-52

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 53-62
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About this book

The discussion of critical infrastructures is dominated by the use of the interlinked concepts “criticality”, “vulnerability”, “resilience”, and “preparedness and prevention”. These terms can be detected in public discourse as well as in scientific debates. Often, they are used simultaneously in a normative as well as in a descriptive way. The PhD candidates of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group KRITIS at Technische Universität Darmstadt examine these concepts systematically one by one and discuss the links between them. They give a critical overview over the uses and limitations of these concepts. Informed by the approaches in Science and Technology Studies, they focus on the interrelatedness of technology and society. The book aims at creating a common ground for interdisciplinary infrastructure research. The authors are from history, philosophy, political science, civil engineering, urban and spatial planning and computer science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Jens Ivo Engels

About the editor

Dr. Jens Ivo Engels is a professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and a spokesperson of the Research Training Group KRITIS.

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