Governing future emergencies: lived relations to risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service

The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that that continually threaten to disrupt its order.

This book concentrates on two such changes by exploring how emergency governance practices have been transformed where an emphasis on risk intersects with the ever-increasing development and diversification of the data and digital technologies that security organisations have at their disposal.

It explores how the facilitation of risk governance through digital technologies in a more quotidian incarnation; where the United Kingdom's Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) take steps to govern fires that have yet to unfold.