Bücher der Reihe Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering

Properly performing health care systems require concepts and methods that match their complexity. Resilience engineering provides that capability. It focuses on a system's overall ability to sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions rather than on individual features or qualities.

In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process. This collection deals with issues such as measurements and models, the use of procedures to ensure safety, the relation between resilience and robustness, safety management, and the use of risk analysis.

Illustrates how the safety science of Resilience Engineering can help to gain an understanding of what the financial services system is and how to improve governance and control of financial services systems by leveraging some of its key concepts.

Resilience engineering depends on four abilities: the ability a) to respond to what happens, b) to monitor critical developments, c) to anticipate future threats and opportunities, and d) to learn from past experience - successes as well as failures. They provide a structured way of analysing problems and proposing practical solutions.