Sustainability

7Resilience Engineering and Quantification for Sustainable Systems

Anita Talan, Bhoomika Yadav, L.R. Kumar, and R.D. Tyagi

INRS, Université du Québec, Québec, Canada

7.1 Introduction

Global policymakers and strategic planners face a lot of difficulties in making choices such as sustainable energy sources that will power cities in the future. These policymakers focus on the pros and cons of every plan before implementation of policies affecting resiliency and sustainability. Global sustainability requires a systems approach to the development of policies and intervention strategies. If full understanding of systems implications is not there, then risk factors increase. Sustainability and resiliency are closely coupled and is essential to quantify the sustainable systems. Sustainability cannot be applied to a particular industry without analysis of effects on other sectors and hence resiliency plays an important role in defining global sustainability. Therefore, setting the boundaries for sustainability and resiliency together for meaningful analysis has become a tough challenge. And a more robust approach is to explore sustainability issues globally using integrated models of resiliency.

Based on the experiences and insights of intellectual global policymakers and leaders from academia, industry and government, this chapter seeks to provide better understanding of global sustainability based on resilience engineering and quantification approaches that are needed for achievement ...