Resilience: Lessons to be learned from safety and acceptable risk

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Resilience: Lessons to be learned from safety and acceptable risk

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It is not unusual to see the concept of resilience housed in binary terms: Your city is either ‘resilient’ or not. In contrast, being ‘safe’ is widely recognized as a statement based on ‘acceptable risk’ where absolute safety is unattainable. So why do we treat resilience and, as an example, the idea of “Resilient Cities” as a distinct endpoint? In this paper, we argue that this mindset is not only incongruent with current understandings of safety and risk but could create a false sense of se...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2021

Creator

Anna K / Logan, Thomas

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/104156

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Risk analysis / Safety / Risk assessment / Resilient / Resilience / Urban / Cities / Disaster management / Engineering / Engineering practice and education / Risk engineering / Human society / Policy and administration / Risk policy / Built environment and design / Urban and regional planning / Strategic, metropolitan and regional planning / Commerce, management, tourism and services / Strategy, management and organisational behaviour / Disaster and emergency management

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