Resilience Engineering [chapter]

Kazuo Furuta
2014 Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident  
Having experienced natural disasters, accidents, and economic crises, people are getting skeptical about technological approaches to risk management. The conventional approaches have not considered sufficiently how to manage residual risks that spill out of the design basis of a complex socio-technical system. Resilience, which means the ability of a system to absorb changes and disturbances in the environment and to maintain system functionality, is a key concept for resolving the above
more » ... on, and resilience engineering is an area where technical methodologies to implement resilience into socio-technical systems are studied. In this chapter, the prehistory of resilience engineering will be described first where the focal point of systems safety has gradually shifted from hardware component failures to the resilience of complex socio-technical systems. Then some relevant topics in resilience engineering will be discussed: how systems resilience can be evaluated and implemented, and the key issues to be resolved in the future.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12090-4_24 fatcat:jyboftjgvrbvdaqx5vlq4s65nq