TY - BOOK ID - 78108630 TI - Reliability and risk : the challenge of managing interconnected infrastructures AU - Roe, Emery AU - Schulman, Paul R. PY - 2016 SN - 0804798621 9780804798624 9780804793933 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Infrastructure (Economics) KW - Risk management. KW - Reliability (Engineering) KW - Risk management KW - Reliability of equipment KW - Systems reliability KW - Engineering KW - Maintainability (Engineering) KW - Probabilities KW - Systems engineering KW - Plant performance KW - Safety factor in engineering KW - Structural failures KW - Insurance KW - Management KW - Capital, Social (Economics) KW - Economic infrastructure KW - Social capital (Economics) KW - Social infrastructure KW - Social overhead capital KW - Economic development KW - Human settlements KW - Public goods KW - Public works KW - Capital KW - Management. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78108630 AB - 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 renders them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure. 'Reliability and Risk' argues 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. ER -