Resilience engineering in practice. Volume 2, Becoming resilient / edited by Christopher P. Nemeth, Applied Research Associates, Inc., USA, Erik Hollnagel, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

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TextSeries: Ashgate studies in resilience engineeringPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate, [2014]Description: xxv, 219 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781472425157 (hbk)

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DDC classification:

620.00452 23

LOC classification:

TA169 .R4663 2014

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Also issued online.

Contents:

An emergent means to assurgent ends: societal resilience for safety and sustainability / Per Becker, Marcus Abrahamsson, and Henrik Tehler -- Describing and prescribing for safe operations within a large technical system (LTS): first reflections / Jean Christophe Le Coze, Nicolas Herchin -- Fundamental on situational surprise: a case study with implications for resilience / Robert L Wears and L Kendall Webb -- Resilience engineering for safety of nuclear power plant with accountability / Masaharu Kitamura -- Criteria for assessing safety performance measurement systems: insights from resilience engineering / Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Carlos Torres Formoso & Camila Campos Famá -- Analysing and learning from adaptive performance / Amy Rankin, Jonas Lundberg and Rogier Woltjer -- Resilience must be managed: a proposal for a safety management process that includes a resilience approach / Akinori Komatsubara -- A case study of challenges facing the design of resilient socio-technical systems / Alexander Cedergren -- Some thoughts on how to align the theoretical understanding of team performance with resilience engineering theory / Johan Bergström, Eder Henriqson and Nicklas Dahlström -- Noticing brittleness, designing for resilience / Elizabeth Lay and Matthieu Branlat -- Sensor-driven discovery of resilient performance: the case of debris removal at Ground Zero, NYC, 2011 / David Mendonça -- Becoming resilient / Erik Hollnagel -- Bibliography.

Summary: "This is the fifth book published within the Ashgate studies in resilience engineering series. The first volume introduced resilience engineering broadly. The second and third volumes established the research foundation for the real-world applications that then were described in the fourth volume: resilience engineering in practice. The current volume continues this development by focusing on the role of resilience in the development of solutions"--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	620.00452 RES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900117939

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This is the fifth book published within the Ashgate studies in resilience engineering series. The first volume introduced resilience engineering broadly. The second and third volumes established the research foundation for the real-world applications that then were described in the fourth volume: resilience engineering in practice. The current volume continues this development by focusing on the role of resilience in the development of solutions"--Provided by publisher.

Also issued online.

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