Resilience is not just an ecological issue, or a social, economic or cultural issue. These issues are interlinked. Resilience involves ecological, economic, cultural, ethical and other social dimensions and values. Sustaining and developing social capacity will be a prerequisite for adaptability and transformability.
"Resilience is the ability to absorb disturbances, to be changed and then to re-organise, to learn from the disturbance, and to still retain the same basic structure and ways of functioning; to still have the same identity. A resilient system is forgiving of external shocks. As resilience declines the magnitude of a shock from which it cannot recover gets smaller and smaller." - Unknown
Sunday, November 7, 2010
What is Resilience?
Resilience is:
- The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
- The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.
- Strength of character
- Flexibility
- "The set of skills and behaviors needed to be successful in the midst of a fast-paced and continuously changing society." (GlaxoSmithKline, 2007)
- "The courage to come back" (Unknown)
- "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius.
- The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
- The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.
- Strength of character
- Flexibility
- "The set of skills and behaviors needed to be successful in the midst of a fast-paced and continuously changing society." (GlaxoSmithKline, 2007)
- "The courage to come back" (Unknown)
- "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius.
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