Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems

Edited by Matthias Ruth, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of York, UK and the late Stefan Goessling-Reisemann, formerly University of Bremen, Germany

'If you believe that resilience is the absence of vulnerability you should consult the new Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems. The authors succeed in presenting excellent arguments and convincing evidence that resilience is an adoptive learning system that is not only able to cope with unpleasant surprises but can also grow as a result of such surprises. The book takes resilience to an alleviated stage of organizational performance: how to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a complex environment.'--Ortwin Renn, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Germany'Policy-makers, business leaders and everyday people are becoming increasingly disorientated as turbulence and its consequences become more disruptive and destructive to the global community. They are in desperate need of guide to help them gather their bearings and provide a path forward, which makes the Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems an especially important and timely contribution. This interdisciplinary compendium brings together a diverse group of top researchers to share their latest findings and insights. The reader of this volume will come away with a deep understanding of what it will take to thrive in the face of the array of stressors and shocks that lie before us.'--Stephen E. Flynn, Northeastern University, US

• Contents:Part I: Background and Foundations1. Introduction to Resilience of Socio-technical SystemsMatthias Ruth and Stefan Goessling-Reisemann2. Towards a Responsible ResilienceAxel Schaffer and Martin Schneider3. The Metaphorical Processes in the History of the Resilience Notion and the Rise of the Ecosystem Resilience Theory Hans Dieter Hellige4. Essentials of Resilience, RevisitedDavid D. Woods5. Overcoming Barriers to Greater Scientific Understanding of Critical Infrastructure ResilienceDavid L. Alderson6. Resilient Systems as a Biomimetic Guiding ConceptArnim von Gleich and Bernd Giese7. From Probabilistic Risk Analysis to Resilience with Network Science: Lessons from the Literature and Best PracticeMary Warner, Udit Bhatia and Auroop Ganguly8. On the Difference between Risk Management and Resilience Management for Critical InfrastructuresStefan Goessling-Reisemann and Pablo Thier9. Resilience and Risk Governance: Current Discussion and Future Action Benjamin D. Trump, Kelsey Poinsatte-Jones, Timothy Malloy and Igor Linkov10. Resilience Engineering – Chances and Challenges for a Comprehensive Concept Stefan Hiermaier, Benjamin Scharte, and Kai FischerPART II: Analyses and Applications11. Analyzing the Resilience of a Transition: An Indicator-based Approach for Socio-technical Systems Claudia R. Binder, Susan Mühlemeier and Romano Wyss12. Leveraging Government Resiliency Assessments and Related Reports: Identifying and Redressing Recurring Gaps and Systemic Barriers through Content Analysis and Cross-Case SynthesisRussell Bowman13. A Survey Approach to Measuring the Cost-Effectiveness of Economic Resilience to DisastersNoah Dormady, Adam Rose, Heather Rosoff and Alfredo Roa-Henriquez14. Ecological Design for Urban Coastal Resilience Ashley Cryan, Brian Helmuth and Steven Scyphers15. Regime Shifts in Social-Ecological SystemsKristi Maciejewski, Reinette, Biggs and Juan.C. Rocha16. The reception of the resilience concept in the energy discourse, and genesis of the theory of resilient energy system designHans Dieter Hellige17. IT-Security for Functional Resilience in Energy Systems: Effect-centric IT-SecurityLars Fischer and Sebastian Lehnhoff18. Assessing Resilience in Energy System Change through an Energy Democracy Lens Jennie C. Stephens19. Reconciling Diverse Perspectives of Decision Makers on Resilience and SustainabilitySahar Mirzaee, Matthias Ruth and David Fannon20. Playable Problems: Game-Design Thinking for Civic Problem SolvingEric GordonIndex