Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface: Seeking Resilience

Christopher Nemeth

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1    An Emergent Means to Assurgent Ends: Societal Resilience for Safety and Sustainability

Per Becker, Marcus Abrahamsson and Henrik Tehler

Chapter 2    Describing and Prescribing for Safe Operations within a Large Technical System (LTS): First Reflections

Jean Christophe Le Coze and Nicolas Herchin

Chapter 3    Fundamental on Situational Surprise: a Case Study with Implications for Resilience

Robert L. Wears and L. Kendall Webb

Chapter 4    Resilience Engineering for Safety of Nuclear Power Plant with Accountability

Masaharu Kitamura

Chapter 5    Criteria for Assessing Safety Performance Measurement Systems: Insights from Resilience Engineering

Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Carlos Torres Formoso and Camila Campos Famá

Chapter 6    A Framework for Learning from Adaptive Performance

Amy Rankin, Jonas Lundberg and Rogier Woltjer

Chapter 7    Resilience Must Be Managed: a Proposal for a Safety Management Process that Includes a Resilience Approach

Akinori Komatsubara

Chapter 8    A Case Study of Challenges Facing the Design of Resilient Socio-technical Systems

Alexander Cedergren

Chapter 9    Some Thoughts on How to Align the Theoretical Understanding of Team Performance with Resilience Engineering Theory

Johan Bergström, Eder Henriqson and Nicklas Dahlström

Chapter 10  Noticing Brittleness, Designing for Resilience

Elizabeth Lay and Matthieu Branlat

Chapter 11  Sensor-driven Discovery of Resilient Performance: The Case of Debris Removal at Ground Zero, NYC, 2001

David Mendonça

Chapter 12  Becoming Resilient

Erik Hollnagel

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index