Europe's infrastructure transition : economy, war, nature / Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Description: xxiii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
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- 9780230308008 (paperback)
- 23 363.6094 HOG 015735
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363.6068 REI 000914 Reinventing public service delivery in India : | 363.60681 URB.A 011049 Urban infrastructure : | 363.6091724 MCD 016643 Alternatives to privatization : | 363.6094 HOG 015735 Europe's infrastructure transition : | 363.60954 DEV 000887 Developing sustainable and inclusive urban infrastructure services : | 363.60954 IND 003379 India infrastructure report 2008 : | 363.60954 KAL 008992 Costs and challenges of local urban services : |
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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