Resilience Is Paramount for Managing Socio-Technological Systems during and Post-Covid-19

被引：10
作者：
Amadi-Echendu J. [1 ]
Thopil G.A. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Engineering and Technology Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
来源：
IEEE Engineering Management Review | 2020年 / 48卷 / 03期
关键词：
Energy systems management; socio-technological systems; vulnerability and resilience;
D O I：
10.1109/EMR.2020.3013712
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摘要：
The spread of the coronavirus concomitant with the Covid-19 disease highlights the interconnectedness between systems that serve humanity. These systems are typically portrayed in economic, ecology and environment, physical/technological, and socio-political contexts and maybe delineated in terms of the interconnectedness between these contexts. Any delineated socio-technological system represents an intriguing class of interconnected systems in the novel era of Society 5.0 concomitant with fourth industrial revolution. This article describes a framework and resiliency model for socio-technological systems plus an application of the lens of vulnerability and resilience to a case study energy systems enterprise. It is intriguing that the energy systems enterprise is usurping extant socio-economic robustness thereby undergoing an absorptive phase of resilience. The discourse complements existing body of literature on energy systems and society by emphasizing that the principles of vulnerability and resilience are paramount for sustainable management of socio-technological systems, and more so in a post-Covid-19 world. © 1973-2011 IEEE.
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页数：10
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