Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1. The Rise of Resilience / Arjen Boin, Louise K. Comfort, and Chris C. Demchak
2. Resilience: Exploring the Concept and Its Meanings / Mark de Bruijne, Arjen Boin, and Michel van Eeten
3. Designing Adaptive Systems for Disaster Mitigation and Response: The Role of Structure / Louise K. Comfort, Namkyung Oh, Gunes Ertan, and Steve Scheinert
4. Lessons from the Military: Surprise, Resilience, and the Atrium Model / Chris C. Demchak
5. Building Resilience: Macrodynamic Constraints on Governmental Response to Crises / Alasdair Roberts
6. Federal Disaster Policy: Learning, Priorities, and Prospects for Resilience / Thomas A. Birkland
7. Designing Resilience: Leadership Challenges in Complex Administrative Systems / Arjen Boin
8. Rapid Adaptation to Threat: The London Bombings of July 7, 2005 / David Alexander
9. The Price of Resilience: Contrasting the Theoretical Ideal-Type with Organizational Reality / Michel van Eeten, Arjen Boin, and Mark de Bruijne
10. Planning for Catastrophe: How France Is Preparing for the Avian Flu and What It Means for Resilience / Claude Gilbert
11. The Limits of Self-Reliance: International Cooperation as a Source of Resilience / Mark Rhinard and Bengt Sundelius
12. International Disaster Resilience: Preparing for Transnational Disaster / Thomas W. Haase
13. Designing Resilient Systems: Integrating Science, Technology, and Policy in International Risk Reduction / Hui Ling, Taieb Znati, and Louise Comfort
14. Resilience Revisited: An Action Agenda for Managing Extreme Events / Louise K. Comfort, Arjen Boin, and Chris C. Demchak
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index