Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity: Implications for System Performance

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dc.contributor.authorDalziell, E.P.
dc.contributor.authorMcManus, S.T.
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-07T01:57:13Z
dc.date.available2009-09-07T01:57:13Z
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.description.abstractAs our infrastructure and organisations become ever more networked and interdependent there is a growing need to focus on managing overall system risk. In particular, there is a need to focus not only on the vulnerability of our systems to failure, but also on our ability to manage and minimise the impact of any failures. This raises some interesting concepts in terms of how we might design systems to be more resilient to change. For example, the traditional engineering approach had been to design systems that are less vulnerable to damage from hazard events. However system resilience can also be enhanced by increasing the adaptive capacity of the system, either through ensuring the system design includes enough redundancy to provide continuity of function, or through increasing the ability and speed of the system to evolve and adapt to new situations as they arise. This paper discusses the particular challenges for evaluating the resilience of organisations to major hazard events.en
dc.identifier.citationDalziell, E.P., McManus, S.T. (2004) Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity: Implications for System Performance. Stoos, Switzerland: 1st International Forum for Engineering Decision Making (IFED), 5-8 Dec 2004. 17 pp.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/2809
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources Engineeringen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ifed.ethz.ch/events/Forum04/Erica_paper.pdfen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectresilienceen
dc.subjectorganisationsen
dc.subjectsystemsen
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen
dc.subjectrecoveryen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services::350200 Business and Managementen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::340000 Economics::340200 Applied Economics::340205 Industry economics and industrial organisationen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technologyen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::360000 Policy and Political Science::360200 Policy and Administration::360201 Public policyen
dc.titleResilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity: Implications for System Performanceen
dc.typeConference Contributions - Published
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