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Disaster Management, Control, and Resilience

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Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience

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This chapter looks at disaster management as a form of safety management, using the perspective of resilience engineering. In safety management, control can be lost by not being ready to respond, by having too little time, by lacking knowledge of what is going on, or by lacking the necessary resources. To maintain control unsurprisingly requires the converse of these conditions. Resilience engineering looks at how systems can sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions by adjusting its functioning prior to, during, or following changes, disturbances, and opportunities. To do so requires the abilities to respond to what happens, to monitor the situation, to learn from what has happened, and to anticipate what may happen. The same type of analysis can be applied to disaster management, to better understand how it succeeds.

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  1. Institute of Regional Health Research, Region of Southern Denmark, Center for Quality, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Erik Hollnagel

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  1. Centre for Security Science, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Anthony Masys

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Hollnagel, E. (2015). Disaster Management, Control, and Resilience. In: Masys, A. (eds) Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08819-8_2

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