Fr. 236.00

Resilience Engineering Perspectives - Preparation and Restoration

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Informationen zum Autor Dr Christopher P. Nemeth, Principal Scientist and Group Leader for Cognitive Systems Engineering, Klein Associates Division (KAD) of Applied Research Associates (ARA), USA, Professor Erik Hollnagel, Industrial Safety Chair at MINES ParisTech, France and Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Previously Professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Director of the Leonardo Da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking there, he gained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA. He has worked in New Zealand, the Netherlands and England, been Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Visiting Academic in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne, and Professor of Community Health Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Canada. Sidney is author of several best-selling books on system failure, human error, ethics and governance. He has been flying the Boeing 737NG part-time as airline pilot for the past few years. The OSU Foundation in the United States awards a yearly Sidney Dekker Critical Thinking Award. Klappentext Preparation and Restoration addresses issues such as the nature of resilience; the similarities and differences between resilience and traditional ideas of system performance; how systems cope with varying demands and sometimes succeed and sometimes fail; how an organization's ways of preparing before critical events can enable or impede restoration; the trade-offs that are needed for systems to operate and survive; instances of brittle or resilient systems; how work practices affect resilience; the relationship between resilience and safety; and what improves or erodes resilience. Zusammenfassung Explores public policy and organizational aspects of resilience and how they aid or inhibit preparation and restoration. This title addresses thoughts on ways to measure resilience and model systems to detect desirable, and undesirable, results. It examines how resilience plays out in the living laboratory of real-world operations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: The ability to adapt, Christopher P. Nemeth; Part I Policy and Organization: The politics and policy challenges of disaster resilience, Thomas A. Birkland and Sarah Waterman; Resilience capacity and strategic agility: prerequisites for thriving in a dynamic environment, Cynthia Lengnick-Hall and Tammy E. Beck. Part II Models and Measures: An initial comparison of selected models of system resilience, David D. Woods, Jason Schenk and Theodore T. Allen; Measuring resilience, John Wreathall. Part III Elements and Traits: The 4 cornerstones of resilience engineering, Erik Hollnagel; Ready for trouble: 2 faces of resilience, Ron Westrum; Layered resilience, Philip J. Smith, Amy L. Spencer and Charles E. Billings. Part IV Applications and Implications: Notes from underground: latent resiliency in healthcare, Shawna J. Perry and Robert L. Wears; Cognitive underpinnings of resilience: a case study of group decision in emergency response, David Mendonça and Yao Hu; Restoration through preparation: is it possible? Analysis of a low-probability/high-consequence event, Martin Nijhof and Sidney Dekker; Understanding and contributing to resilient work systems, Emilie M. Roth, Jordan Multer and Ronald Scott; The infusion device as a source of healthcare resilience, Christopher P. Nemeth, Michael O'Connor and Richard I. Cook; Bibliography; Index....

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