Industrial activities are increasingly dependent on each other. Several recent events (e.g. Tsunami and earthquake in Japan in 2011) illustrate the consequences (e.g. humans, economic...) of interactions between industrial infrastructures. The state-of-the-art review focused mainly on the risk assessment and interdependencies between critical infrastructures. The aim of this paper is to present...

How do social movements respond to the ecological crisis? In this paper, we reframe as 'more-than-social movements' highlight fact that many contemporary mobilisations much more than target recognised institutions and political governance; indeed, they are practically transforming eco-societies with within both human nonhuman world. What constitutes core of more-than-social action is capacity s...

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Purpose – The key purpose of this paper is to overview the many issues related to the integration of social sensing and pervasive sensing in the support of adaptive context-aware services. Design/methodology/approach – From the analysis of existing proposals and prototypes, the authors found out that the process of integrating social and pervasive sensing can follow a limited number of approach...

Socio-technical systems are social systems that incorporate technological infrastructures. At the group level of analysis, the most important question in understanding socio-technical systems is how their technological infrastructures modulate collective capacities for performance and experience. This research addresses collective capacities with respect to various sorts of communities—interest...

BACKGROUND This article reports on the development of a systematic approach to assess for community readiness prior to implementation of a behavioural intervention for childhood obesity. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we developed research tools to evaluate local community centres' organisational readiness and their capacity to implement the intervention. ...

The paper discussed Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Port-HarcourtCity, Nigeria. This was informed by the high rate of unemployment in the society and the poor performance of SMEs in employment generation. While the research questions addressed the extent to which poor financing, inadequate social infrastructures, lack of managerial skills and mul...

In the same way that infrastructures such as transportation, electricity, sewerage, and water supply are widely assumed to be integrators of urban spaces (Graham & Marvin, 2001), information infrastructures such as national health information networks and online social networks are assumed to be integrators of information spaces. Interest in information infrastructure development grew with the ...

While cash transfers gain prominence as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is strong impulse regard them stepping-stone towards formalization of employment and universalization social protection. This contribution problematizes how populations in informality are included narrowly targeted assistance interventions, which heavily reliant on schemes fail make legible programme administrato...