RESILIENCE SKILLS FOR YOUNG CIVIL ENGINEERS WHO ENGAGE IN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

Abstract

Under the severe financial conditions, Japanese infrastructure planning is definitely facing some complex and di ffi cult situations. Resilience is defined by psychologists as successful adaptation to adversity, including successful recovery from adverse life events and sustainability in relation to challenges. It is important to produce a lot of human resources with resilience skills for di ffi cult works from infrastructure planning to implementation. However, declining resilience skills of civil engineers will have become obvious in recent years. This paper discusses the resilience skills and capacity building process needed for the young civil engineer using oral history of six pioneers who have overcome the project di ffi culties and led many of them to success.