Technological and Biological Systems' Resilience: Observations and Learnings.

IF 3 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Management Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-02 DOI:10.1007/s00267-025-02193-3

Lindsay Robertson, Alan Bond

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Abstract

Technological systems have become progressively more complex, indispensable and ubiquitous, as has the inevitability of failures. These appreciations have generated increased interest in resilience. At present, the resilience of technological systems is highly dependent on ad-hoc and abstract problem solving provided by humans, and specifically their agency to repair damage: such dependence will inevitably become less practical as technological systems become more complex, and are impractical even now for systems that are inaccessible to humans. Biological systems, by contrast, typically demonstrate truly spectacular resilience, evidenced by the capability to self-repair deterioration and injury over millennia. Definitions of resilience commonly assemble multiple concepts describing the achievement of 'resilience' and the means by which this is achieved. Breaking down these concepts as they are applied to biological and technological systems allows useful analysis of the concepts that inhibit or promote resilience in technological systems. This paper attempts to learn from resilience processes as these are applied within biological systems, in order to clarify understanding of the basis for resilience of current and future technological systems. We propose that principles demonstrated to achieve high levels of resilience in biological system, can increase the resilience of technological systems.

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技术和生物系统的弹性：观察和学习。

技术系统变得越来越复杂、不可或缺和无处不在，失败也变得不可避免。这些升值增加了人们对弹性的兴趣。目前，技术系统的弹性高度依赖于人类提供的临时和抽象的问题解决方案，特别是他们修复损害的代理：随着技术系统变得更加复杂，这种依赖将不可避免地变得不那么实用，即使现在对于人类无法进入的系统也是不切实际的。相比之下，生物系统通常表现出真正惊人的恢复能力，数千年来自我修复退化和损伤的能力证明了这一点。弹性的定义通常由多个概念组成，这些概念描述了“弹性”的实现以及实现弹性的方法。将这些概念应用于生物和技术系统时，可以对抑制或促进技术系统恢复力的概念进行有用的分析。本文试图从弹性过程中学习，因为这些应用于生物系统中，以澄清对当前和未来技术系统弹性基础的理解。我们提出，在生物系统中实现高水平弹性的原则可以增加技术系统的弹性。

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来源期刊

Environmental Management 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

2.90%

发文量

178

审稿时长

12 months

期刊介绍： Environmental Management offers research and opinions on use and conservation of natural resources, protection of habitats and control of hazards, spanning the field of environmental management without regard to traditional disciplinary boundaries. The journal aims to improve communication, making ideas and results from any field available to practitioners from other backgrounds. Contributions are drawn from biology, botany, chemistry, climatology, ecology, ecological economics, environmental engineering, fisheries, environmental law, forest sciences, geosciences, information science, public affairs, public health, toxicology, zoology and more. As the principal user of nature, humanity is responsible for ensuring that its environmental impacts are benign rather than catastrophic. Environmental Management presents the work of academic researchers and professionals outside universities, including those in business, government, research establishments, and public interest groups, presenting a wide spectrum of viewpoints and approaches.