This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the
consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities
to bounce back in the event of severe disruption. Catastrophic events such as the 9.11
terrorist attack the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the volcano eruption in Central Java
entailed massive devastation on physical infrastructures and caused significant social and
economic damage. This book considers how the modern sociotechnological system facilitating
human activity defines how societies survive and whether a crisis will be short-lived or
prolonged. Drawing on the concept of sociotechnical resilience this book closely examines a
range of events North America Asia Australia and Europe. By presenting the successes and
failures of sociotechnical resilience it offers important insights and practical lessons to
build better and comprehensive understandings of resilience in a real-world setting
significantly contributing to the study of disaster resilience.
