Top Research Papers on Resilience

As part of a multi-article presentation about national and social resilience to the military practitioner community, the article initially embeds the concept of resilience into a concept of change. From this grounding discussion, the profiling of national/social resilience is presented as a useful part of building an improved intelligence process of holistic change forecasting. Next, as a better way of seeing and evaluating how different nations and societies will uniquely respond to crises, uniquely recover post-crisis and thereafter change into their future, a way of using resilience change ...

As the number of COVID19 cases is increasing again in Europe and other areas, the interest in flood risk management is declining. The public and politicians are occupied by more urgent issues, such as health, income, and employment. Especially in countries where the last flood occurred long ago, like the Netherlands, the issue of flood risk management may be moved down on the list of priorities. However, it remains important to continue improving the knowledge on assessing flood risks and developing and evaluating flood risk management strategies. If not, risks may increase, and opportunities ...

When adverse life events occur, people often suffer negative consequences for their mental health and well-being. More adversity has been associated with worse outcomes, implying that the absence of life adversity should be optimal. However, some theory and empirical evidence suggest that the experience of facing difficulties can also promote benefits in the form of greater propensity for resilience when dealing with subsequent stressful situations. I review research that demonstrates U-shaped relationships between lifetime adversity exposure and mental health and well-being, functional impair...

Mattawa, Ontario is located at the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers, east of North Bay on the Ontario-Quebec border. On the Quebec side of the river, high on top of the hill, stand three crosses. These crosses were first erected by Samuel De Champlain's party in 1614 to mark the place where the rivers met. From downstream on the Ottawa, the crosses could be seen from a great distance. Champlain's party were the first white people to see this place. Over the centuries, the crosses weathered and were replaced when necessary.

This chapter extends the concept of resilience past its popular use and abuse to consider the deeper set of concepts that shape understandings of stability and instability in ecological relationships. Here, bundles of supporting concepts, each carrying implicit values, threaten to turn a multitude of useful ideas into a mess of conflicting frameworks. While resilience is a concept that developed out of the empirical grounds of ecology, it becomes, for sustainability science, a ‘term of art’ that expands to encompass the qualitative discourses of the humanistic sciences.

This paper argues that human psychological resilience is a central virtue in sport and in human life generally. Despite its importance, it is an overlooked virtue in philosophy of sport and classical and contemporary virtue theory. The phenomenon of human resilience has received a great deal of attention recently in other quarters, however. There is a large and instructive empirical psychological literature on resilience, but connections to virtue theory are rarely drawn and there is no agreement about what the concept refers to. This paper attempts to clarify the concept of resilience and exp...

The term resilience is used in a variety of ways and in many different contexts. A simple definition is provided by Brian Walter and David Salt (2012) who describe resilience as the ability to absorb ‘disturbances’ but still retain structure and function. It is used in a range of knowledge fields: originating in the sciences, when Crawford Holling (1973) wrote about resilient ecological systems, then becoming established in fields of natural resource management, engineering and design, and in the social sciences such as geography, anthropology, social psychology, development and disaster studi...

Track animals that are resistant to the behavioral effects of these stressful paradigms and explore the molecular underpinnings of resilience in the brains of these same animals to address the possibility that prior exposure to stressors may inoculate animals to the deleterious effects of later stressor exposure.

A few years ago, I met a young man named Cody Coleman. Cody's story begins in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, where his mother was serving time for threatening to kill the child of a senator. Cody's childhood was chaotic and uncertain. When he told me the bare facts, my heart broke for the little boy who, against all odds, grew up to thrive in every possible sense of the word. Today, Cody is completing his PhD in computer science at Stanford. He is exceptionally kind. He smiles more easily than any other person I know. And he signs off every email with “make it a good d...

This chapter discusses how, after being cut from the Chicago Bears, Bob Thomas was signed to the Detroit Lions' roster for their 1982 season opener against the Bears. But just as things were looking up for both Thomas and his new team, the inevitable reared its ugly head on September 21 as the NFL Players Association went on strike. Upcoming games were stricken from the schedule for the foreseeable future. After fifty-seven days, the two warring sides finally came to an agreement on November 16. The seven games missed from the regular season would not be made up, but an expanded playoff format...

Reflections from my online key-note lecture given at the fib symposium 2020 in Shanghai are presented, and some reflections from this editorial are presented on the future of the construction industry in general and of structural concrete in particular.

Resilience: The capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. A resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and rebuild itself when necessary. Resilience: Resilience in social systems is the capacity of humans to anticipate and plan for the future. In human and ecological systems, resilience is achieved through adaptive capacity. Resilience: Systems with high adaptive capacity are able to reconfigure themselves without significant declines in crucial functions in relation to primary prod...

Greater emphasis on understanding the protective aspects of resilience and related well-being outcomes are important to delineate the unique neurobiological factors that underpin this process, so that effective interventions can be developed to assist vulnerable populations and resilience promotion.

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2001, Vol 46(4), 420–422. Reviews Resilience and Development: Positive Life Adaptations (M. D. Glantz and J. L. Johnson; see record 1999-04168-000). An overview of the book is provided. New understandings of resilience presented i

We talked to Rob Warner, at Building Resilience, to find out how people are looking at new methods to survive these challenging times. We live in tough times. Reports abound of financial squeezes, major organisational change, retrenchments, crime, corruption and inefficient government. It's easy to feel anxious and even fearful which inevitably affects our emotional and physical well-being. The consequence can be diminished productivity at work and impaired relationships both at work and home. So what can you do to cope with these tough times, to deal with the stresses you inevitably encounter...

To begin tackling the problem of increased vulnerability to natural disasters, we must understand what we are trying to achieve. In recent years, the term resilience has gained popularity, but it is used in widely varying ways. All communities should strive for resilience, but what does it mean? Resilience has different definitions arising from a range of disciplines that use the concept, including natural hazard management, ecology, psychology, sociology, geography, psychiatry, and public health. These different perspectives mean that resilience is a widely used term that can take on differen...

religious issues, decentralization problems, value orientations, etc. New academic disciplines such as “Hybrid Threats and Comprehensive Security” and “History and Hybrid Threats” are suggested as one of the ways to strengthen the stability of Ukrainian society, in particular among student youth. It was concluded that the main key to countering hybrid threats in social domains is a formed, strong civil society. The authors proceed from the position that a civil society has been formed in the country, which was demonstrated by the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity.

The 2 key concepts for clinical and public health work are: the dynamic nature of resilience throughout the lifespan; and the interaction of resilience in different ways with major domains of life function, including intimate relationships and attachments.

Most of us at some point will be struck by one or more major traumas: violent crime, domestic violence, rape, child abuse, a serious automobile accident, the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, a natural disaster or war. If you are very lucky, then you have never encountered any of these misfortunes; but most likely you will someday. It is estimated that up to 90 percent of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lives (Norris & Sloane, 2007). Indeed, since the first edition of this book the authors have experienced traumatic events in their own live...

This special issue contains select refereed conference proposal abstracts of presentations planned for the cancelled Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) conference at Western University May 30-June 4, 2020. The abstracts represent paper presentations, round tables, symposia and panel presentations from the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS) and CACS’ special interest groups including: the Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS), the Canadian Critical Pedagogy Association (CCPA), the Science Education Research Group (SERG), the Language and Literacy Researche...