Resilience: Lessons to be learned from safety and acceptable risk

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 ide...

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Main Authors: Kosovac Anna, Tom McLeod Logan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666449621000517