Blossoming Networks and Integrated Infrastructure: Mitigating Disaster Through Human-Centered Technology
A review is presented of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World, by Martha Baer, Katrina Heron, Oliver Morton, and Evan Ratliff. In this book, Baer et al. argue that people who work in open systems are armed with better information and are better able to respond to natural...
| Publicado en: | Journal of International Affairs Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 358 - 364 |
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Journal of International Affairs
Spring/Summer 2006
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