Resilience Engineering and Quantification for Sustainable Systems

Abstract

Resilience is a key element for effective decision making with respect to global sustainability. The industrial, environmental and social systems are interlinked, and the sustainability of one domain affects that of the others. Therefore, it is very necessary to reduce unsustainable behavior to achieve global sustainability and this chapter focuses on resilience and sustainability as an interlinked approach The unsustainability caused needs better understanding of dynamic and adaptive behavior of complex systems and their resilience during disruptions so that steady-state sustainability models can be simplified. New technology processes and understanding of dynamic system behavior enable an integrated approach for resilience improvement by understanding the assessment approaches. The chapter also defines the indicators, resilient systems and standards to quantify successful resilience and sustainability. Communal resiliency is discussed in detail by analyzing associated risk factors and ways of integrating sustainability with resilience.