Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events

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v Contents List of Tables and Figures   vii Preface   ix 1 The Rise of Resilience   1 Arjen Boin, Louise K. Comfort, and Chris C. Demchak 2 Resilience: Exploring the Concept and Its Meanings   13 Mark de Bruijne, Arjen Boin, and Michel van Eeten 3 Designing Adaptive Systems for Disaster Mitigation and Response: The Role of Structure    33 Louise K. Comfort, Namkyung Oh, Gunes Ertan, and Steve Scheinert 4 Lessons from the Military: Surprise, Resilience, and the Atrium Model   62 Chris C. Demchak 5 Building Resilience: Macrodynamic Constraints on Governmental Response to Crises   84 Alasdair Roberts 6 Federal Disaster Policy: Learning, Priorities, and Prospects for Resilience   106 Thomas A. Birkland 7 Designing Resilience: Leadership Challenges in Complex Administrative Systems   129 Arjen Boin 8 Rapid Adaptation to Threat: The London Bombings of July 7, 2005   143 David Alexander vi Contents 9 The Price of Resilience: Contrasting the Theoretical Ideal-Type with Organizational Reality   158 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   180 Claude Gilbert 11 The Limits of Self-Reliance: International Cooperation as a Source of Resilience   196 Mark Rhinard and Bengt Sundelius 12 International Disaster Resilience: Preparing for Transnational Disaster   220 Thomas W. Haase 13 Designing Resilient Systems: Integrating Science, Technology, and Policy in International Risk Reduction   244 Hui Ling, Taieb Znati, and Louise K. Comfort 14 Resilience Revisited: An Action Agenda for Managing Extreme Events   272 Louise K. Comfort, Arjen Boin, and Chris C. Demchak Notes   285 References   295 List of Contributors   329 Index   335 ...