Contributing to Disaster Management as an Individual Member of a Collectivity: Resilient Ethics and Ethics of Resilience

Bako Rajaonah (1) , Enrico Zio (2, 3, 4)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises
3 POLIMI - Politecnico di Milano [Milan]
4 Eminent Scholar at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

Resilient ethics and ethics of resilience are introduced as aspects relevant for disaster management. In this view, this short communication highlights both the aspects of ethics and resilience, and the human cognitive biases that lead to unexpected behaviors in a context such as that of the current Covid-19 pandemic. The role of educative information is discussed, and the need to consider resilient ethics and ethics of resilience in disaster management is emphasized.

Mots clés: Covid-19; Disaster management; Ethics of resilience; Moral values; Resilient ethics

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Education

Bako Rajaonah, Enrico Zio. Contributing to Disaster Management as an Individual Member of a Collectivity: Resilient Ethics and Ethics of Resilience. 2020. ⟨hal-02533290v2⟩