Handbook on resilience of socio-technical systems / edited by Matthias Ruth, Stefan Gössling-Reisemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Ruth, Matthias, editor.

Gössling-Reisemann, Stefan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

Improving the resilience of social systems is a goal increasingly adopted in our modern world. This unique and comprehensive Handbook focuses on the interdependencies of these social systems and the technologies that support them. It explores the ways in which the resilience of elements and social systems interact with each other to promote or undermine resilience for one or both, how these interactions manifest themselves through space and time, and how they can be shaped through active intervention. Original and multi-disciplinary contributions illustrate the nuances in the way resilience is interpreted through corresponding case studies and applications. The use of diverse tools, such as cost-effectiveness analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, transition theory and network science provides readers with a balanced treatment of both theoretical issues surrounding resilience and applications to specific socio-technical systems. Case studies from across the globe are used to discuss the ways in which natural disasters, terror attacks, cyber attacks and infrastructure degradation impact the resilience of these systems. Timely and innovative, this Handbook is an ideal resource for university think-tanks, researchers and advanced students exploring the resilience of both social and technical systems. Planners and policy-makers will also greatly benefit from the lessons drawn from contemporary case studies.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Background and foundations

1. Introduction to resilience of socio-technical systems / Matthias Ruth and Stefan Goessling-Reisemann

2. Towards a responsible resilience / Axel Schaffer and Martin Schneider

3. The metaphorical processes in the history of the resilience notion and the rise of the ecosystem resilience theory / Hans Dieter Hellige

4. Essentials of resilience, revisited / David D. Woods

5. Overcoming barriers to greater scientific understanding of critical infrastructure resilience / David L. Alderson

6. Resilient systems as a biomimetic guiding concept / Arnim von Gleich and Bernd Giese

7. From probabilistic risk analysis to resilience with network science: lessons from the literature and best practice / Mary Warner, Udit Bhatia and Auroop Ganguly

8. On the difference between risk management and resilience management for critical infrastructures / Stefan Goessling-Reisemann and Pablo Thier

9. Resilience and risk governance: current discussion and future action / Benjamin D. Trump, Kelsey Poinsatte-Jones, Timothy Malloy and Igor Linkov

10. Resilience engineering - chances and challenges for a comprehensive concept / Stefan Hiermaier, Benjamin Scharte, and Kai Fischer

Part II: Analyses and applications

11. Analyzing the resilience of a transition: an indicator-based approach for socio-technical systems / Claudia R. Binder, Susan Mühlemeier and Romano Wyss

12. Leveraging government resiliency assessments and related reports: identifying and redressing recurring gaps and systemic barriers through content analysis and cross-case synthesis / Russell Bowman

13. A survey approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of economic resilience to disasters / Noah Dormady, Adam Rose, Heather Rosoff and Alfredo Roa-Henriquez

14. Ecological design for urban coastal resilience / Ashley Cryan, Brian Helmuth and Steven Scyphers

15. Regime shifts in social-ecological systems / Kristi Maciejewski, Reinette, Biggs and Juan.C. Rocha

16. The reception of the resilience concept in the energy discourse, and genesis of the theory of resilient energy system design / Hans Dieter Hellige

17. IT-Security for Functional resilience in energy systems: effect-centric IT-Security / Lars Fischer and Sebastian Lehnhoff

18. Assessing resilience in energy system change through an energy democracy lens / Jennie C. Stephens

19. Reconciling diverse perspectives of decision makers on resilience and sustainability / Sahar Mirzaee, Matthias Ruth and David Fannon

20. Playable problems: game-design thinking for civic problem solving / Eric Gordon

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78643-937-9