by Lorenzo Strigini.
This is a chapter prepared for the
"State of the Art"
report produced by the AMBER
(Assessing, Measuring, and Benchmarking Resilience) Co-Ordination Action, funded by the
European Framework Programme 7, FP7 - 216295, June 2009.
ABSTRACT
This
document discusses the various concepts associated with the word "resilience", which is enjoying
renewed popularity in various contexts with political decision makers and research sponsoring agencies,
from the viewpoint of measurement and assessment: which properties it encompasses, how these can be
measured and how they relate to those covered by established practice in reliability and safety
engineering, human factors and related disciplines.
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