ABSTRACT
The first volume in the Resilience Engineering Perspectives series (Hollnagel, Nemeth and Dekker, 2008) grew from papers that were presented at the Second Symposium on Resilience Engineering at Juan les Pins, France, in November 2006. As the first volume in the series outside of a symposium setting, this text considers what it means for an organization to be able to adapt, and how that ability relates to resilience and efforts to engineer resilient systems. Its authors deliberate on how that ability plays out before and after a critical challenge – the preparation to meet challenges and the restoration that returns a system to working order afterward.
