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From Resilience Engineering to Resilient Performance

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Looking back at how resilience engineering made its entry onto the safety arena in 2004, resilience was initially seen as a substitute, and part extension, of safety, hence as something that could be engineered or managed. In the years since then it has become clear that how systems perform, and especially whether the performance is resilient, is more important than whether they are resilient. This chapter identifies the main conceptual and practical developments from 2004 until today.

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Hollnagel, E., Nemeth, C.P. (2022). From Resilience Engineering to Resilient Performance. In: Nemeth, C.P., Hollnagel, E. (eds) Advancing Resilient Performance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74689-6_1

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