The Science and Practice of Resilience

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This book offers a comprehensive view on resilience based upon state-of-the-science theories and methodological applications that resilience may fill. Specifically, this text provides a compendium of knowledge on the theory, methods, and practice of resilience across a variety of country and case contexts, and demonstrates how a resilience-based approach can help further improved infrastructure, vibrant societies, and sustainable environments and ecologies, among many others. Resilience is a term with thousands of years of history. Only recently has resilience been applied to the management of complex interconnected systems, yet its impact as a governing philosophy and an engineering practice has been pronounced. Colloquially, resilience has been used as a synonym for ‘bouncing back’. Philosophically and methodologically, however, it is much more. In a world defined by interconnected and interdependent systems such as water, food, energy, transportation, and the internet, a sudden and unexpected disruption to one critical system can lead to significant challenges for many others. The Science and Practice of Resilience is beneficial for those seeking to gain a rich knowledge of the resilience world, as well as for practitioners looking for methods and tools by which resilience may be applied in real-world contexts. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Risk and Resilience: Similarities and Differences (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 3-7 Resilience as Function of Space and Time (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 9-34 Panarchy: Thinking in Systems and Networks (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 35-44 Lessons from History (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 45-55 Front Matter ....Pages 57-57 Resilience and Governance (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 59-79 Resilience Quantification and Assessment (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 81-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 The State of Practice (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 105-124 Metrics-Based Approaches (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 125-165 Applications of Network Science and Systems Thinking (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 167-179 Conclusion: Resilience for a Complex World (Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump)....Pages 181-183 Back Matter ....Pages 185-209