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Lessons in risk- vs. resilience-based design and management.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21608108     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The implications of recent catastrophic disasters, including the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, reach well beyond the immediate, direct environmental and human health risks. In a complex coupled system, disruptions from natural disasters and man-made accidents can quickly propagate through a complex chain of networks to cause unpredictable failures in other economic or social networks and other parts of the world. Recent disasters occurred in such systems, revealed the inadequacy of classical risk management approach. This paper calls for the need for a new resilience-based design and management paradigm, learned from ecological system analogs, capable of coping with the low-probability/high-consequence disruptions and of responding effectively by the safe-fail approach. Integr. Environ. Assess. Manag. © 2011 SETAC.
Authors:
Jeryang Park; Thomas P Seager; P Suresh C Rao
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-5-23
Journal Detail:
Title:  Integrated environmental assessment and management     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1551-3793     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-5-24     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101234521     Medline TA:  Integr Environ Assess Manag     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 SETAC.
Affiliation:
School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. jeryang@purdue.edu.
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