Resilience Engineering 20 years on
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Resilience Engineering is a different systems view * and one that encompasses different layers of human systems, the different layers of technological capabilities, and grounding these in the complexities of operations in the face of uncertainty, time pressures, and surprise.
Resilience Engineering is a different view of human and technological systems view that centers on adaptive capacities – how adaptive units interact as events disrupt plans in progress, coordinating over distributed roles and players, built-on/working with various technological capabilities, in systems that serve human purposes."
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Foresight review of resilience engineering, Designing for the expected and unexpected (10 years back)
"Resilience describes the emergent property or attributes that some systems have which allows them to withstand, respond and/or adapt to a vast range of disruptive events by preserving and even enhancing critical functionality. The term is used widely over many different fields of study, but quantitative metrics of the resilience of socio-technical systems are not well established and standards and processes are still emerging. Rigorous methodologies and technical integrity is needed to support the uptake and impact of resilience engineering.
Resilience can be built by developing capabilities to monitor, respond, anticipate and learn. Challenges to resilience include ‘external’ threats from a range of hazards including environmental, social, economic and technological changes, and ‘internal’ threats from organisational deficiencies. New technologies can provide opportunities but also threats to resilience."
"Engineered solutions to improved resilience of socio-technical systems will require a transdisciplinary approach including engineering; the natural, physical, and social sciences; economics; and policy.
Solutions will require assessment and predictive capabilities that do not presently exist, including identification, collection and analysis of relevant data. Pro-active approaches such as ‘Safety 2’ and performance-based engineering can support the resilience goal of preserving critical system functionality in the face of anticipated and unanticipated conditions. The report also identifies the serious challenge of retrofitting existing systems. There are a wide range of possible actions and interventions that could support resilience. These range from developing facilities and tools to supporting new knowledge and technologies; fostering international collaboration and understanding of global systems; establishing foundational research; learning from ecology and ecosystems; and developing better incentives for improving resilience."
What is resilience engineering?
The term resilience has been in use for many years by a variety of disciplines. It describes
the emergent property, or attribute, that some systems have which allows them to withstand, respond and/or adapt to a vast range of disruptive events. Pages 7-10
Impacts, trends, and opportunities: the challenges to resilience
The challenges to achieving improved resilience, in particular of complex socio-technical systems, include a range of external and internal (organisational) influences: Pages 19-20
https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/site...ngineering.pdf
* An Introduction to Systems Thinking
https://vdoc.pub/download/systems-on...g-svom93d433o0
or
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dkibr...=02nstruy&dl=0