Megan Finn
Information School, University of Washington, USA
megfinn@uw.edu

In our contemporary era of “preparedness,” disaster planning is one technique in attempting to ready society for a disaster (Lakoff 2007). American disaster response plans simultaneously imagine and even prescribe actions, functioning as future-making but not future-determining documents. But disaster response plans […]

Makoto Takahashi
Department of Quantum Science and Energy Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan
makoto.takahashi@qse.tohoku.ac.jp

Masaharu Kitamura
Research Institute for Technology Management Strategy (TeMS), Japan
kitamura@temst.jp

The accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) after the Great East Japan earthquake has caused huge and tragic influences on the people. Although accident reports already published mainly focuses on finding individual causes, responsible persons root causes, less attentions […]

Vivek Kant
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
vkant@ntu.edu.sg

Justyna Tasic
Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
TASI0001@e.ntu.edu.sg

The aim of this chapter is to introduce a framework for analyzing sociotechnical resilience and its applicability for Singapore’s electricity sector. Two main streams of thought have addressed sociotechnical systems (STS) and its resilience—social sciences and engineering. Both these approaches […]