The sociotechnical constitution of resilience : a new perspective on governing risk and disaster / Sulfikar Amir, editor

Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright Date: ©2018
Physical Description: xv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Additional Creators: Amir, Sulfikar

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Contents

Introduction : resilience as sociotechnical construct / Sulfikar Amire -- part I. Dissecting resilience -- What (sociotechnical) resilience is made of : personal trajectories and earthquake risk mitigation in the San Francisco Bay area / Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse -- Sociotechnical resilience : from recovery to adaptation and beyond, the journey so far... / Stephen Healy -- Mapping sociotechnical resilience / Vivek Kant and Justyna Tasic -- part II. Disrupted environments -- Weather-ready nation or ready-weather agency? : emphatic accuracy and sociotechnical resilience in the National Weather Service / Jen Henderson -- Coping with Indonesia's mudflow disaster / Anto Moshin -- part III. Informational relations -- Information infrastructure and resilience in American disaster plans / Megan Finn -- An audience perspective on disaster response / Kurniawan Adi Saputro -- part IV. Engineered system -- Post-Fukushima controversy on SPEEDI system : contested imaginary of real-time simulation technology for emergency radiation protection / Shin-etsu Sugawara and Kohta Juraku -- Saving Onagawa : sociotechnical resilience in the 3.11 disaster / Makoto Takahashi and Masaharu Kitamura -- part V. Urban life -- An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective / Bingunath Ingirige and Gayan Wedawatta -- How resilience discourses shape cities : the case of resilient Rotterdam / Anique Hommels.

Summary

"This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption. Catastrophic events such as the 9.11 terrorist attack, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the volcano eruption in Central Java entailed massive devastation on physical infrastructures, and caused significant social and economic damage. This book considers how the modern sociotechnological system facilitating human activity defines how societies survive and whether a crisis will be short-lived or prolonged. Drawing on the concept of sociotechnical resilience, this book closely examines a range of events North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. By presenting the successes and failures of sociotechnical resilience, it offers important insights and practical lessons to build better and comprehensive understandings of resilience in a real-world setting, significantly contributing to the study of disaster resilience."--

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ISBN

9789811085086 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9811085080 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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