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Special Section Editorial: Risk, Complexity And Sustainability, Lindsay Robertson, Katina Michael
Special Section Editorial: Risk, Complexity And Sustainability, Lindsay Robertson, Katina Michael
Professor Katina Michael
This special section is dedicated to risk as understood within our society, in which we depend upon increasingly complex and interconnected technologies for even our most basic needs - water, food, shelter, electricity, gas, sewage, communications, and banking.
Natural disasters and their impact on vital services has been a research area that has flourished, especially since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in South Asia. Out of this research has come forth a plethora of strategies for addressing short term and geographically defined disasters. While such disaster preparedness systems are vital to minimise the …
Wie Featured Person Of The Month Highlights (Katina Michael), Keyana Tenant, Katina Michael
Wie Featured Person Of The Month Highlights (Katina Michael), Keyana Tenant, Katina Michael
Professor Katina Michael
The WIE Featured Person of the Month is Katina Michael, editor-in-chief of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. After working at OTIS Elevator Company and Andersen Consulting, Katina was offered and exciting graduate engineering position at Nortel in 1996; and her career has been fast track from there. Read Katina’s story on Page 7.