Resilience: Lessons to be learned from safety and acceptable risk

It is not unusual to see the concept of resilience housed in binary terms: Your city is either ‘resilient’ or not. In contrast, being ‘safe’ is widely recognized as a statement based on ‘acceptable risk’ where absolute safety is unattainable. So why do we treat resilience and, as an example, the ide...

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Autores principales:	Kosovac Anna, Tom McLeod Logan
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021
Materias:	Risk analysis Safety Risk assessment Resilient Resilience Urban Risk in industry. Risk management HD61
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/cee3382b399f4f25b3a0de262f59c094
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cee3382b399f4f25b3a0de262f59c0942021-11-24T04:34:39ZResilience: Lessons to be learned from safety and acceptable risk2666-449610.1016/j.jnlssr.2021.10.002https://doaj.org/article/cee3382b399f4f25b3a0de262f59c0942021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666449621000517https://doaj.org/toc/2666-4496It is not unusual to see the concept of resilience housed in binary terms: Your city is either ‘resilient’ or not. In contrast, being ‘safe’ is widely recognized as a statement based on ‘acceptable risk’ where absolute safety is unattainable. So why do we treat resilience and, as an example, the idea of “Resilient Cities” as a distinct endpoint? In this paper, we argue that this mindset is not only incongruent with current understandings of safety and risk but could create a false sense of security for systems that otherwise have been judged ‘resilient’. An alternative is that we can and should consider framing resilience in the same manner as we do to safety. The benefit of doing this is that we can learn from the safety literature and appreciate that, like for safety, there is no such thing as absolute resilience. Instead, we should be striving to constantly identify and reduce the risks to our systems and society.Kosovac AnnaTom McLeod LoganKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.articleRisk analysisSafetyRisk assessmentResilientResilienceUrbanRisk in industry. Risk managementHD61ENJournal of Safety Science and Resilience, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 253-257 (2021)
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description	It is not unusual to see the concept of resilience housed in binary terms: Your city is either ‘resilient’ or not. In contrast, being ‘safe’ is widely recognized as a statement based on ‘acceptable risk’ where absolute safety is unattainable. So why do we treat resilience and, as an example, the idea of “Resilient Cities” as a distinct endpoint? In this paper, we argue that this mindset is not only incongruent with current understandings of safety and risk but could create a false sense of security for systems that otherwise have been judged ‘resilient’. An alternative is that we can and should consider framing resilience in the same manner as we do to safety. The benefit of doing this is that we can learn from the safety literature and appreciate that, like for safety, there is no such thing as absolute resilience. Instead, we should be striving to constantly identify and reduce the risks to our systems and society.
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Resilience: Lessons to be learned from safety and acceptable risk

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