Supraresilience of bio-socio-technical infrastructures

Abstract

Abstract The paper is one of the first attempts dealing with the problem of creating, providing and maintaining antifragility of systems of critical infrastructures in the wake of black-swan type biological, technological, ecological, economic or social catastrophes occurring in a municipality or territory. A synonym is offered to describe antifragility (as defined by N.N. Taleb) from a positive psychology perspective, formulating the problem as the supraresilience problem. Initial data, problems to be solved, resilience metrics, methods and tools needed for providing practical urban/regional resilience and risk management are discussed and formulated. A verbal and formal definitions of the supraresilience of bio-socio-technical infrastructures are proposed.