Social Responses to Large Technical Systems

Springer Netherlands

1991

190 p.

NATO ASI series. Series D: Behavioural and social sciences ; 58

9789401134002

Large Technical Systems, Real-life Experiments, and the Legitimation Trap of Technology Assessment: The Contribution of Science and Technology to Constituting Risk Perception -The Governance of Large Technical Systems: The Case of Telecommunications -The External Control of Large Technical Systems: Offshore Oil Production Safety and Health Regulation in Great Britain and Norway -Facing the Collapse of the Washington Public Power Supply System -Iran Air Flight 655 and the USS Vincennes: Complex, Large-scale Military Systems and the Failure of Control -The Aviation Safety Commission: A Task Force Approach to the Evaluation of Large Technical Systems -How Do We Treat Technical Uncertainty in Systems Failure? The Case of the Space Shuttle Challenger -Notes Toward a Sociology of Supercomputing -Reflections and Triangulation: Three Commentaries -A View from Economic History -A View from the Social Sciences -Historical Overview -Appendix Conference Agenda and List of Participants.

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