By Jan Verlin, Chair in Geopolitics of Risk, Ecole Normale Supérieure What makes people self-organize to give first aid to victims of an active shooter? Why do people share their houses with others who lost their homes in an earthquake?…
By Stolero Nathan, Bodas Moran, Peleg Kobi, Adini Bruria Tel Aviv University Imagine the not-so-hypothetical-anymore situation: there is a worldwide pandemic, and many countries are in lockdown. People are at home, confused, worried, and some even suffer from a medical…
By Sahar Elkady, TECNUN, School of Engineering of the University of Navarra If we can learn something from 2020 and 2021, is that disaster is around the corner. We cannot survive unless we collaborate. This “we” includes us as civilians…
By Rose Michael, European Emergency Number Association (EENA) When a disaster occurs, the first people on the scene are often members of the general public. In those first moments, the actions of citizens have the potential to mitigate the impacts…
Newsletter #19 (May 2021) by Frédéric Martin at the Patient Safety Database team has been published. You may download it from the link below. More information on this project can be found at this address. Share your thoughts with our…
……..honestly, how serious can gaming be? And how do we proceed with the idea of resilience? by Kees van der Blom, MSHE Over the past few years, we developed suitable theoretical material for this purpose and also, great efforts have…
REA Newsletter Editor: Sheuwen Chuang. Article by: By Sheuwen Chuang, Taipei Medical University (Taiwan) Resilience Engineering (RE) has been recognized widely and grown rapidly worldwide. The initiatives that highlight how resilience is unique and essential to safety management have advanced…
REA Editor: Sheuwen Chuang. Article by: Alan H YANG (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) Getting right of resilience in the age of global pandemic with political turbulenceMaintaining resilience will facilitate the restoration of order and return to normality and stability. Being…
REA Newsletter Editor: Sheuwen Chuang. Article by Satoru NISHIKAWAProfessor, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University How can we save our livelihoods? How can we minimize economic damage by disasters? We need to involve the business sector in disaster reduction activities!…
Naturalistic Desicion Making (NDM), Foundation pour une Culture de Sécurité Industrielle (FONCSI), Institut pour une Culture de Sécurité Industrielle (ICSI) and Resilience Engineering Association (REA) common initiative webpage is now live and under construction. In the meantime, we would like…