Resilience engineering depends on four abilities: the ability a) to respond to what happens, b) to monitor critical developments, c) to anticipate future threats and opportunities, and d) to learn from past experience - successes as well as failures. Working with the four abilities provides a structured way of analyzing problems and issues, as well as of proposing practical solutions (concepts, tools, and methods).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Resilience and the ability to respond / Jean Pariès -- Lessons from the Hudson / Jean Pariès -- Coping with uncertainty. Resilient decisions in anaesthesia / Lucie Cuvelier and Pierre Falzon -- Training organisational resilience in escalating situtions / Johan Bergström [and others] -- Monitoring -- a critical ability in resilience engineering / John Wreathall -- From flight time limitations to fatigue risk management systems -- a way toward resilience / P. Cabon [and others] -- Practices for noticing and dealing with the critical. A case study from maintenance of power plants / Elizabeth Lay -- Cognitive strategies in emergency and abnormal situations training -- implications for resilience in air traffic control / Stathis Malakis and Tom Kontogiannis -- Resilience and the ability to anticipate / David D. Woods -- Basic patterns in how adaptive systems fail / David D. Woods and Matthieu Branlat -- Measuring resilience in the planning of rail engineering work / P. Ferreira [and others] -- The art of balance: using upward resilience traits to deal with conflicting goals / Berit Tjørhom and Karina Aase -- The importance of functional interdependencies in financial services systems / Gunilla A Sundström and Erik Hollnagel -- To learn or not to learn, that is the question / Erik Hollnagel -- No facts, no glory / John Stoop -- From myopic coordination to resilience in socio-technical systems. A case study in a hospital / Anne Sophie Nyssen -- Requisites for successful incident reporting in resilient organisations / Alberto Pasquini [and others] -- Is the aviation industry ready for resilience? Mapping human factors assumptions across the aviation sector / Kyla Zimmermann [and others].