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Author Zebrowski, Chris

Title Value of Resilience : Securing life in the twenty-first century
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages)
Series Interventions
Interventions
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the value of resilience; The value(s) of security; Genealogy and the critique of values; Resilience and the biopolitics of security; Chapter outline; 1 State of emergency; War becomes vital: securing the essentials of life in the First World War; Harnessing uncertainty: esprit de corps and moral forces; A British machinery of emergency governance; Essentials of life in the Emergency Powers Act (1920); Panic and the origins of British Civil Defence
Operational research and the 'scientification' of warGeneralizing emergency: the Emergencies Committee; Conclusion; 2 Protect and survive; Freedom from fear: social insurance and the British welfare state; Ensuring survival: post-war civil defence; Imagining Armageddon: the Strath report; Preparing for survival; State of emergency: the Civil Contingencies Unit; Conclusion; 3 The nature of resilience; The nature of nature; Transforming nature; The nature of neoliberalism; The birth of resilient populations; Conclusion; 4 Securing emergence; The contemporary threat environment
Transformation: the Revolution in Military AffairsOptimizing network-centric warriors; Emergent security; Harnessing emergence: resilience and UK Civil Contingencies planning; Conclusion; 5 The technological subject of resilience; Resilient by design; The subject of communications technology; Exercising resilience; Conclusion; Conclusion: evaluating resilience; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Civil Contingencies Secretariat.
SUBJECT Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Civil Contingencies Secretariat. fast (OCoLC)fst01974209
Subject Emergency management -- Psychological aspects
Emergency management -- Great Britain
Human security -- Psychological aspects
Human security -- Great Britain
Resilience (Personality trait)
Emergency management.
Emergency management -- Psychological aspects.
Human security.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Great Britain.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315681924
1315681927