@article{e2b3847bddf941cdb04bfbd2e1fb7f49,
title = "Toward General Principles for Resilience Engineering",
abstract = "Maintaining the performance of infrastructure-dependent systems in the face of surprises and unknowable risks is a grand challenge. Addressing this issue requires a better understanding of enabling conditions or principles that promote system resilience in a universal way. In this study, a set of such principles is interpreted as a group of interrelated conditions or organizational qualities that, taken together, engender system resilience. The field of resilience engineering identifies basic system or organizational qualities (e.g., abilities for learning) that are associated with enhanced general resilience and has packaged them into a set of principles that should be fostered. However, supporting conditions that give rise to such first-order system qualities remain elusive in the field. An integrative understanding of how such conditions co-occur and fit together to bring about resilience, therefore, has been less clear. This article contributes to addressing this gap by identifying a potentially more comprehensive set of principles for building general resilience in infrastructure-dependent systems. In approaching this aim, we organize scattered notions from across the literature. To reflect the partly self-organizing nature of infrastructure-dependent systems, we compare and synthesize two lines of research on resilience: resilience engineering and social-ecological system resilience. Although some of the principles discussed within the two fields overlap, there are some nuanced differences. By comparing and synthesizing the knowledge developed in them, we recommend an updated set of resilience-enhancing principles for infrastructure-dependent systems. In addition to proposing an expanded list of principles, we illustrate how these principles can co-occur and their interdependencies.",
keywords = "Adaptive management and governance, principles for resilience engineering, self-organization, social-ecological system resilience",
author = "Yu, {David J.} and Schoon, {Michael L.} and Hawes, {Jason K.} and Seungyoon Lee and Jeryang Park and Rao, {P. Suresh C.} and Siebeneck, {Laura K.} and Ukkusuri, {Satish V.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank the National Science Foundation (CIS‐1638311) and the Center for the Environment at Purdue University (C4E seed grant program) for financial support of this research. The authors would like to thank Dr. Sara Meerow for valuable discussions. The authors also would like to acknowledge that the impetus for writing this article came from their participation in the workshop on held at Purdue University in 2017 (organized by Purdue's Building Sustainable Communities cluster members). The authors would like to thank Leigh Raymond (lead organizer), the Purdue Center for the Environment (sponsor), and other participants for valuable inputs and discussions. The statements, findings, and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nationasl Science Foundation, or other sponsor organizations. New Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience Funding Information: The authors thank the National Science Foundation (CIS-1638311) and the Center for the Environment at Purdue University (C4E seed grant program) for financial support of this research. The authors would like to thank Dr. Sara Meerow for valuable discussions. The authors also would like to acknowledge that the impetus for writing this article came from their participation in the workshop on New Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience held at Purdue University in 2017 (organized by Purdue's Building Sustainable Communities cluster members). The authors would like to thank Leigh Raymond (lead organizer), the Purdue Center for the Environment (sponsor), and other participants for valuable inputs and discussions. The statements, findings, and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nationasl Science Foundation, or other sponsor organizations. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Society for Risk Analysis",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/risa.13494",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "40",
pages = "1509--1537",
journal = "Risk Analysis",
issn = "0272-4332",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "8",
}