Hollnagel, E., Woods, D. D. & Leveson, N. (Eds.) (2006) Resilience engineering: Concepts and precepts. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Summary of Contents

David D. Woods & Erik Hollnagel Prologue: Resilience Engineering Concepts 
Part I: Emergence

Erik Hollnagel

1. RESILIENCE: the Challenge of the Unstable
Yushi Fujita Systems are ever changing
David D. Woods 2. Essential Characteristics of Resilience

Andrew Hale & Tom Heijer

3 Defining Resilience

Yushi Fujita

Nature of Changes in Systems

Jean Pariès

4 Complexity, Emergence, Resilience

Ron Westrum

5 A Typology of Resilience Situations

Yushi Fujita

Resilient Systems

David D. Woods & Richard I. Cook

6 Incidents – Markers of Resilience or Brittleness?

Sidney Dekker

7 Resilience Engineering: Chronicling the Emergence of Confused Consensus
Part II: Cases and Processes

Nancy Leveson, Nicolas Dulac, David Zipkin, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, John Carroll & Betty Barrett

8 Engineering Resilience into safety-critical system

Andrew Hale & Tom Heijer

9 Is Resilience Really Necessary? The Case of Railways

Yushi Fujita

Systems Are never Perfect
Lars Axelsson 10 Structure for Management of Weak and Diffuse Signals

Nick McDonald

11 Organisational Resilience and Industrial Risk

Yushi Fujita

An Evil Chain Mechanism Leading to Failures

Arthur Dijkstra

12 Safety Management in Airlines

Richard I. Cook & Christopher Nemeth

13 Taking Things In One’s Stride: Cognitive Features of Two Resilient Performances

Rhona Flin

14 Erosion of Managerial Resilience: From Vasa to NASA

Gunilla Sundström & Erik Hollnagel

15 Learning How To Create Resilience In Business Systems

René Amalberti

16 Optimum System Safety and Optimum System Resilience: Agonistic or Antagonistic Concepts?
Part III: Challenges for a Practice of Resilience Engineering

John Wreathall

17 Properties of Resilient Organisations: An Initial View

Yushi Fujita

Remedies

Andrew Hale, Frank Guldenmund & Louis Goossens

18 Auditing Resilience In Risk Control and Safety Management Systems

David D. Woods

19 How to Design a Safety Organization: Test Case for Resilience Engineering

Yushi Fujita

Rules and procedures

Richard I. Cook & David D. Woods

20 Distancing through Differencing: An Obstacle to Organizational Learning Following Accidents

Erik Hollnagel & Gunilla Sundström

21 States of Resilience

Erik Hollnagel & David D. Woods

Epilogue: Resilience Engineering Precepts

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