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Download e-book for iPad: Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events by Louise K. Comfort,Arjen Boin,Chris C. Demchak

By Louise K. Comfort,Arjen Boin,Chris C. Demchak

ISBN-10: 0822960613

ISBN-13: 9780822960614

In the wake of serious climatic occasions and terrorist acts, and the emergence of harmful applied sciences, groups, international locations, and international corporations have diligently sought to create recommendations to arrange for such occasions. Designing Resilience offers case experiences of maximum occasions and analyzes the power of affected members, associations, governments, and technological structures to deal with disaster.

This quantity defines resilience because it pertains to catastrophe administration at particular levels: mitigation, prevention, coaching, and reaction and restoration. The publication illustrates types through which to judge resilience at degrees starting from contributors to NGOs to governmental jurisdictions and examines how resilience might be constructed and sustained. a gaggle or nation’s skill to resist occasions and emerge from them with their valuable associations intact is on the middle of resilience. caliber of reaction, skill to improvise, coordination, flexibility, and persistence also are determinants. person case experiences, together with storm Katrina within the usa, the London bombings, and French preparedness for the Avian flu, display potent and useless strategies.

The members demonstrate how the complexity and worldwide interconnectivity of contemporary systems—whether they're governments, cellular populations, energy grids, monetary platforms, or the Internet—have transcended borders and created a brand new point of publicity that has made them specifically susceptible to severe occasions. but those far-reaching worldwide platforms additionally own the facility to alert and reply at larger speeds than ever before.

The authors study particular features of resilient systems—the traits they own and the way they develop into resilient—to ensure if there are methods to construct a process of resilience from the floor up. As such, Designing Resilience will tell a large diversity of scholars and students in components of public management, public coverage, and the social sciences.

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