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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resilience Engineering In Practice Vol 2 Becoming Resilient 2014 Edition by Christopher P. Nemeth, Erik Hollnagel
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. Since its inception, the development of resilience engineering as a concept and a field of practice has insisted on expanding the scope from a preoccupation with failure to include also the acceptable everyday functioning of a system or an organisation. The preoccupation with failures and adverse outcomes focuses on situations where something goes wrong and the tries to keep the number of such events and their (adverse) outcomes as low as possible. The aim of resilience engineering and of this volume is to describe how safety can change from being protective to become productive and increase the number of things that go right by improving the resilience of the system. Contents: Preface: seeking resilience, Christopher Nemeth; 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 and 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 and Camila Campos Fama; A framework for 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 Bergstrom, Eder Henriqson and Nicklas Dahlstrom; 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, 2001, David Mendonca; Becoming resilient, Erik Hollnagel; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.