Description: Reliability and Risk Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Challenge of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures Author(s): Paul Schulman, Emery Roe Format: Hardback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9780804793933, 978-0804793933 Synopsis The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures?such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water?is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure. Emery Roe and Paul R. Schulman argue that designs, policies, and laws often overlook the knowledge and experiences of those who manage these systems on the ground?reliability professionals who have vital insights that would be invaluable to planning. To combat this major blind spot, the athors construct a new theoretical perspective that reveals how to make sense of complex interconnected networks and improve reliability through management, regulation, and political leadership. To illustrate their approach in action, they present a multi-year case study of one of the world's most important "infrastructure crossroads," the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Reliability and Risk advances our understanding of what it takes to ensure the dependability of the intricate?and sometimes hazardous?systems on which we rely every day.
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Book Title: Reliability and Risk
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Reliability and Risk: the Challenge of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Government, Management, Business
Item Height: 229 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Emery Roe, Paul Schulman
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Series: High Reliability and Crisis Management
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
