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Authors:
Bijun Wang
Mo Mansouri
Onur Asan
Keywords: resilience; systems thinking; complex system; COVID-19; healthcare system; governance system; socio-technical system.
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of system resilience in confronting major crises. This paper leverages the systems thinking approach to emphasize the interactions and feedback among systems for fostering resilience from multiple levels and timing stages. This paper also emphasizes the impact of socio-technical systems on societal resilience, since it is a crucial aspect of resilience and is discussed in terms of its ability to disseminate information, policies, and promote system resourcefulness and flexibility. In addition, we analyze the interrelationships and interactions among systems at multiple levels, including macro-level (society), meso-level (community and local network), and micro-level (individual and families), to foster resilience from different angles. We also review policies that correspond to different spatial-temporal resilience stages (preparation, disturbance, recovery, transformation) to provide enlightenment for policymaking from a resilience thinking perspective. Our analysis reveals that a system's resilience relies on the interconnectedness and feedback mechanism among systems, and policy design should aim to minimize functionality loss in the shortest time to maintain robustness and rapidity in response. Additionally, the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the transformation process should be taken into account when implementing policies at different levels. Our study can serve as a future research path aiming at enhancing societal resilience in facing the challenges and preparing for potential pandemics in the future.
Pages: 50 to 55
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: April 24, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4243
ISBN: 978-1-68558-037-7
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023