Preface: Seeking Resilience

Christopher Nemeth

Becoming Resilient is the second text in the Ashgate series “Resilience Engineering in Practice (REiP).” While Ashgate Publishing’s “Resilience Engineering Perspectives” series has explored what the field of resilience engineering (RE) is, REiP take the practical approach to RE. The chapters in this text seek answers to the challenging questions that are posed by applying concepts in prior texts to actual problems. Their reports show that while the first successful steps have been made, there is still a lot to do in order to develop RE from an initial concept into an approach that will change the way systems are developed and operated.

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