Risk Analysis, Emergency Management and Resilience in Disasters
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2618
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emergency management; risk governance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent disasters, such as catastrophic earthquakes, COVID-19 and so on, have consistently demonstrated the need to cope with expected and unexpected disruptions – a property often referred to as resilience (Boin et al., 2010; Shakou et al., 2019). That is, disasters pose severe challenges to affected communities and individuals in preparing for, making sense of, and responding to adverse events: disasters are unpredictable, usually propagate severe consequences, entail risks and time pressure, and deplete available resources, all of which render established emergency plans ineffective (Perry, 2007).
To address this gap, many valuable researches have emerged to enhance knowledge regarding resilience of socio-technical systems in which human operators and technical tools jointly adapt to and cope with complexity of unanticipated events (Hollnagel and Woods, 2005; Hollnagel et al., 2006). Up to now, various definitions of resilience have been proposed in the literature. Woods (2006) defined resilience as a system’s capability to handle disruptions that fall outside a designed performance envelope, emphasizing adaptations to unanticipated situations (2006, p. 21). Later, Hollnagel (2011) proposed a refined definition of resilience as the system’s inherent ability to adjust its functioning before, during, and after changes and disturbances.
Undoubtedly, researches based on perspectives of resilience has hitherto contributed to addressing emergency management challenges and identifying new capabilities in complex socio-technical systems, but commensurate efforts to examine resilience in various scenarios or domains are still limited. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the essential strength, stability, and capacity to retain certain capabilities throughout the course of disasters, and to recuperate as quickly and as efficiently as possible during the post-disaster recovery phase.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following: Resilience for Disaster Management, Sustainability and Resilience in the area of Risk Analysis, Disaster Resilience and Urban/Community Sustainability.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Reference
- Boin, A.; McConnell, A. Preparing for Critical Infrastructure Breakdowns: The Limits of Crisis Management and the Need for Resilience. J. Contingencies Crisis Manag. 2007, 15, 50–59, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2007.00504.x.
- Hollnagel, E., Woods, D.D., Joint Cognitive Systems: Foundations of Cognitive Systems Engineering. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, US, 2005
- Hollnagel, E., Woods, D.D., Leveson, N., Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts. Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, UK, 2006.
- Hollnagel, E., Prologue: the scope of resilience engineering. In Resilience Engineering in Practice: A Guidebook, Hollnagel, E., Paries, J., Woods, D.D., Wreathall, J., Eds.; Ashgate Publishing: Surrey, UK, pp. 20-39, 2011.
- Perry, R.W., What is a disaster? In Handbook of Disaster Research, Rodriguez, H., Quarantelli, E., Dynes, R., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, US, pp. 1–15, 2007.
- Shakou, L.M.; Wybo, J.-L.; Reniers, G.; Boustras, G. Developing an innovative framework for enhancing the resilience of critical infrastructure to climate change. Saf. Sci. 2019, 118, 364–378, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2019.05.019.
- Woods, D.D., Essential characteristics of resilience. In Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts, Hollnagel, E., Woods, D.D., Leveson, N., Eds.; Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, UK, pp. 21–34, 2006.
Prof. Dr. Xuesong Guo
Dr. Jia Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- risk analysis
- emergency management
- resilience
- disaster management
