The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience [electronic resource] : A New Perspective on Governing Risk and Disaster /
Amir, Sulfikar.editor.
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. .
Introduction: Resilience as Sociotechnical Construct -- PART 1 DISSECTING RESILIENCE -- What (Sociotechnical) Resilience is Made of: Personal Trajectories and Erathquake Risk Mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area -- Sociotechnical Resilience-From Recovery to Adaptation and Beyond: the Journey So Far... -- Mapping Sociotechnical Resilience -- PART 2 DISRUPTED ENVIRONMENTS -- Weather Ready Nation or Ready Weather Agency?: Emphatic Accuracy and Sociotechnical Resilience in the National Weather Service -- Coping with Indonesia's Mudflow Disaster -- PART 3 INFORMATIONAL RELATIONS -- Information Infrastructure and Resilience in American Disaster Plans -- An Audience Perspective on Disaster Response -- PART 4 ENGINEERED SYSTEMS -- Post-Fukushima Controversy on SPEEDI System: Contested Imaginary of Real-Time Simulation Technology for Emergency Radiation Protection -- Saving Onagawa: Sociotechnical Resilience in the 3.11 Disaster -- PART 5 URBAN LIFE -- An SME Driven Approach to Adopting Measures of Flood Resilience: A UK-Based Perspective -- How Resilience Discourses Shape Cities: the Case of Resilient Rotterdam.
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. .
Sociology, Urban.
Architecture.
Sustainable development.
Environmental policy.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Cities, Countries, Regions.
Sustainable Development.
Environmental Policy.