Human Agency in Disaster Planning: A Systems Approach

摘要: Current approaches to risk management place insufficient emphasis on the system knowledge available assessor, particularly in respect of dynamic behavior under threat, role human agents (HAs), and those agents. In this article, we address second these issues. We are concerned with a class systems containing HAs playing variety roles as significant elements-as decisionmakers, cognitive agents, or implementers-that is, activity systems. Within family HAS, focus safety mission-critical systems, referring subclass critical (CHASs). Identification contribution elements is nontrivial problem whether an engineering context, or, case here, wider social public context. Frequently, they treated standing apart from design policy terms. Regardless process definition followed, analysis threats such CHAS requires holistic approach, since effect undesirable, uninformed, erroneous actions part both potentially output inextricably bound together nonhuman system. present procedure for identifying potential risks emerging HAs, using 2014 flooding southwestern England Thames Valley contemporary example.