Thomas Horan (ed.)

Digital Infrastructures

Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology
Herausgeber: Horan, Thomas; Zimmerman, Rae

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Produktbeschreibung

Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415324618
• ISBN-10: 0415324610
• Artikelnr.: 22395854

Autorenporträt

Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Part I: Overview 1. What are Digital Infrastructures? Rae
Zimmerman and Thomas Horan 2. Technology and Engineering Dimensions William
O'Brien and Luis Soibelman 3. Management Challenges Thomas Horan and Roy
Sparrow 4. Policy Perspectives Jonathan Gifford Part II: Infrastructure
Cases 5. Water Rae Zimmerman 6. Transportation Christopher Cluett 7.
Electricity Massoud Amin 8. Telecommunications Mitchell Moss and Anthony
Townsend Part III: Crosscutting Issues 9. Economics of Information
Technology David Henry and Jess Dumagan 10. Infrastructure and IT
Dimensions in the Developing World Carlos Restrepo 11. Green Design
Principles Timothy Beatley 12. Earth Systems Engineering Braden Allenby
Part IV: Conclusion 13. Themes and New Directions Thomas Horan and Rae
Zimmerman