User-involvement and consensus building are thought to be a key process to achieve high satisfaction in planning and implementing social infrastructures and related services and plans. In products and information system development, an iterative Human-centered Design process starting from observing users behavior are applied, but not implemented in the areas above is known to provide effective ...

Critical Infrastructure Protection requires the prioritization of critical assets and the evaluation of the criticality of infrastructures. However, criticality analysis is not yet standardized. In this paper we examine the relation between security risk and criticality. We analyze the similarities and differences in terms of scope, aims, impacts, threats and vulnerabilities and we suggest how ...

Smoothly functioning infrastructures are “unnoticeable”; they attract attention upon a breakdown. When infrastructure does not function as intended, it stop working altogether. Rather, functions in unprecedented ways. This article argues that the process of malfunctioning, only facilitates engagement, but also produces an affect. ethnography shows how “broken road” ( razbitaia doroga ) rural po...

This paper explores the social and spatial implications of drinking water infrastructures in rural southern Bihar. Hardiya, a multi-caste multi-religion village, has complex arrangement. village consists original households, households resettled due to dam construction, excessive fluoride contamination groundwater. Excessive produces incidences fluorosis among historically, have low access clea...