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in modernen Gesellschaften ist der Gedanke weit verbreitet, dass soziale Netzwerk eine große Leistungsfähigkeit bei der Generierung von Problemlösungen besitzen und andere Formen der Handlungskoordination, beispielsweise der bürokratischen Organisation, oftmals überlegen sind. Netzwerke verknüpfen Flexibilität und Effizienz in einer einzigartigen Weise. Sie machen zudem das Risiko innovativen Handelns kalkulierbar, weil sich die kooperierenden Partner wechselseitig absichern. Das Werk liefert anhand unterschiedlicher gesellschaftlicher Handlungsfelder Einblicke in die Praktiken einer vernetzten Gesellschaft. Es präsentiert zudem Bausteine einer soziologischen Theorie sozialer Netzwerke.

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This open access book directs attention to the safety implications of disruptive, sustainability-driven changes in sociotechnical systems resulting from climate-change considerations in high-risk industries. It addresses not only the dismantling of currently prevalent systems and structures and the achievement of a stable future state but also the management of processes for establishing new practices in a safe and reliable manner without undue interruption of important functions and services. Leading scholars from various fields of research have contributed to this brief by analyzing case studies as well as through conceptual and methodological work. They propose strategies for coping with new kinds of risk at local and organizational levels. The oil and gas and nuclear industries are two cases investigated here. They present a challenging mixture of continuity and disruption and require strategies for coping with safety and sustainability issues at the same time. Innovativemethods such as real-world experimentation and computer-based simulation are discussed as means of investigating the issues at stake. Climate Change and Safety in High-Risk Industries brings together critical appraisals of the challenges that will be faced by industry, regulatory bodies and decision-makers in coming decades. It analyzes whether safety and sustainability are accurately thought of as competing imperatives or, rather, offer possibilities for a more cooperative approach to the necessary adaptations in our modes of production and consumption.

Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Industrial Management. --- Nuclear engineering. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Environmental Monitoring. --- Industrial management.

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Metropolitan research requires interdisciplinary collaboration in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this transdisciplinary perspective that allows metropolitain research to address recent social challenges of urban life, such as mobility, accessibility, or sustainability.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- City. --- Cultural Geography. --- Geography. --- Interdisciplinarity. --- Methods. --- Metropolitan Research. --- Social Geography. --- Space. --- Sustainability.