Abstract
Resilience,which is a new concept in safety management and crisis management,stands for the ability of a system to absorb changes and disturbances and to sustain its functionality. Resilience engineering is an academic area for studying methodologies how resilience can be implemented into systems.Having experienced many tragic events in the last decades,resilience engineering has been proposed to answer the people’s request that preparedness of the society for the unanticipated should be enhanced further.As an introduction to resilience engineering, this article is to present the story why resilience engineering was born and to explain basic concepts and terms in resilience engineering.
