The Science and Practice of Resilience

PartI: Foundations of Resilience.- Chapter1: Risk and Resilience: Similarities and Differences.- Chapter2:  Resilience as Function of Space and Time.- Chapter3: Panarchy: Thinking in Systems and Networks.- Chapter4: Lessons from History.- PartII: Resilience Assessment: State of Science and Governance.- Chapter5: Resilience and Governance.- Chapter6: Resilience Quantification and Assessment.- PartIII: Resilience Management: State of Practice and Case Studies.- Chapter7: The State of Practice.- Chapter8: Metrics-based Approaches.- Chapter9: Applications of Network Science and Systems Thinking.- Chapter10: Conclusion.



 

Dr. Igor Linkov is the Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and Adjunct Professor with Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Linkov has managed multiple risk and resilience assessments and management projects in many application domains, including cybersecurity, transportation, supply chain, homeland security and defense, and critical infrastructure.  He was part of several Interagency Committees and Working Groups tasked with developing resilience metrics and resilience management approaches, including the US Army Corps of Engineers Resilience Roadmap. Dr. Linkov has organized more than thirty national and international conferences and continuing education workshops, including NATO workshops on Cyber Resilience in Estonia (2018) and Finland (2019), as well as Chaired Program Committee for 2015 and 2019 World Congresses on Risk in Singapore and Cape Town.  He has published widely on environmental policy, environmental modeling, and risk analysis, including twenty books and over 350 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in top journals, like Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Climate Change, among others.  He has served on many review and advisory panels for DOD, DHS, FDA, EPA, NSF, EU and other US and international agencies.  Dr. Linkov is Society for Risk Analysis Fellow and recipient of 2005 Chauncey Starr Award for exceptional contribution to Risk Analysis as well as 2014 Outstanding Practitioner Award.   He is Elected Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Linkov has a B.S. and M.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (Polytechnic Institute) and a Ph.D. in Environmental, Occupational and Radiation Health (University of Pittsburgh).  He completed his postdoctoral training in Risk Assessment at Harvard University.


Dr. Benjamin D. Trump is an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow for the US ArmyCorps of Engineers and a Postdoctoral