Nexus of Resilience and Public Policy in a Modern Risk Society

• Main Authors: Shimizu, Mika (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), L. Clark, Allen (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Public policy.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Risk management.; Social policy.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Public Policy.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Risk Management.; Social Policy.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society. Its primary focus is on operationalizing resilience, i.e., on incorporating elements of resilience in public policy in the context of our modern risk society.While ther...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Nexus of Resilience and Public Policy: Systems Views
• 3. Modern Risk Society: Social Needs for Resilience through Co-Knowledge Production
• 4. Nexus of Resilience and Public Policy: Case of Tohoku Disaster
• 5. Nexus of Resilience and Public Policy: Case of Sandy Hurricane
• 6. Nexus of Resilience and Public Policy: Assessment of Regional Practices in Asia
• 7. Global Co-knowledge Production Based Resilience Practices
• 8. Resilience Assessment Framework
• 9. Policy Implication and Conclusion: Facing Deep Uncertainties. .