Top Research Papers on Resilience

ABSTRACT This is a sketch for a critique of “resilience” and “resiliency” as keywords of neoliberal newspeak (officialese, langue de bois) under the innocuous banner of which all manner of business is now being transacted. I register the rapid extension of resilience discourse, note the socioeconomic context of its rise to prominence, and identify its implicit political assumptions and its social and subjective effects and side effects.

THE term resilience is appearing increasingly in articles in specialised journals, covering anything from psychology to management and strategy. The very word resilience is worthy of a moment’s consideration because of the issues it raises, and also to examine why it has become so fashionable. It comes into the language, probably via French, from the Latin verb resaltare, which means to rebound or bounce back, to get moving again or to result from, or possibly from the verb resilire, with the literal meaning to jump backwards. In modern language, however, the word is used in a number of contex...

For Torben Iversen, capitalism is not responsible for the crisis democracies are currently facing. After Jenny Andersson, Cyril Benoit underlines (...)

‘Resilience training’ that includes yoga and mindfulness is one reason I despair of the RCGP.

A resilient community is one that does not experience serious degradation in critical services when a hazard occurs and, in the event of degradation or failure, recovers to a similar or better level of service in a reasonable amount of time. The most efficient means of making a community resilient is to make its critical services and capital robust – minimize damage/loss probability or the consequences from damage/loss through mitigation. If a community's critical services and capital are not robust, efforts must be put into recovery. Based on the measurable aspects of community capital, we ha...

Natural resilin possesses outstanding mechanical properties, such as high strain, low stiffness, and high resilience, which are difficult to be reproduced in synthetic materials. We designed high resilient elastomers (HREs) with a network structure to mimic natural resilin on the basis of two natural abundant polymers, stiff cellulose and flexible polyisoprene. With plasticization via mineral oil and mechanical cyclic tensile deformation processing, HREs show ultrahigh resilience, high strain, and reasonable tensile strength that closely mimic natural resilin. Moreover, the mechanical properti...

The present study explores the process of resilience for FFY. This exploration began with understanding how FFY define resilience, followed by how they engage in communicative processes to enact resilience. Using the phronetic iterative approach, the communication theory of resilience (CTR) (Buzzanell, 2010) was used to analyze data from qualitative interviews with FFY (n=14). Qualitative data analysis revealed that FFY defined resilience as survival (with subthemes of weathering the storm and rising again like the phoenix), as elastic, and as burdensome. Data analysis also revealed that FFY e...

The aim of this paper is to inspect the alignment between a general understanding of resilience in WDSs and the metrics used for their resilience assessment, and to present a novel framework for categorising resilience metrics for W DSs.

More than ever before the teaching profession is experiencing complex change. Those in the early years are in the midst of the Early Years Learning Framework/National Quality Framework (EYLF/NQF) changes to ensure every child has the best possible start in life. Then there are the massive social and technological changes that are transforming the landscape of childhood and the very different parenting approaches that today's children experience. Today's children are more challenging and full of variety than previous generations.

Application of resilience using an educational and practical framework provides a means for connecting with and nurturing a client's resilience, which is the force that drives a person to grow through adversity and disruptions.

The aim of this report is to provide practical hints on how to evaluate the concept of Resilience in the domain of Critical Infrastructures in case of failure stopping external threats.

Aim: To analyze the concept of resilience in mathematics subject based on three-term use; resilience in mathematics, academics resilience in mathematics, and mathematical resilience. Background: Resilience in academics is a contemporary focus, especially in mathematics subjects. A few terms and concepts of resilience in mathematics subjects introduced, and recently, the term mathematical resilience has received attention and become based on other resilience research in mathematics. Methods: The primary database is Scopus and Google scholar. The keyword use is (a) resilience, resiliences (b) ma...

The discourse on disaster resilience and vulnerability entails diverse research and policy communities each assigning different meanings to the concepts, which in turn influences their measurement and implementation in decision-making contexts. This invited contribution introduces a themed section with five independently submitted papers on the broad topic of vulnerability and resilience. The distinctive geographical focus on the historical development of vulnerability and resilience and their contemporary manifestations is illustrated by the five internationally focused case studies presented...

The urban realm is changing rapidly and becoming increasingly interconnected across continents, and across contrasting types of land covers, while at the same time facing new environmental threats and experiencing new demographic and social pressures. The urban component of the global ecosystem can be made more sustainable by incorporating the ecological understanding of resilience into the discourse. Sustainability is seen as a social, normative goal, which can be promoted using the mechanisms of ecological resilience. Ecological resilience differs from engineering resilience. Ecological resi...

This theoretical paper takes an aesthetic view of leadership to investigate the leadership needed to make cities more resilient. It sees an urban system as a complex, evolving entity constantly crossed by a variety of inflows and outflows connecting it to other systems, while its constituent elements are in interaction between themselves. Three fundamental dispositions in the aesthetic literature, sensibility, reflexivity and wisdom, seem crucial to ensure that leaders anticipate and cope with a variety of shocks, taking advantage of the opportunities to transform and learn. These dispositions...

Big cities in developing countries face many obstacles related to the built environment when confronted by socioeconomic inequalities, which is reflected by the uneven access to basic living infrastructure, such as sanitation and housing. In the light of new approaches to traditional materials and building techniques, this article aims to investigate the use of digital fabrication tools in the production of lightweight precast systems for the social production of habitat in Brazil. To develop a clear assessment of the possibilities created by these technological alternatives, two academic app...

Resilience as a category of mechanics means an ability of elastic bodies to restore their shape after mechanical pressure. Against the background of the SARS Covid-19 pandemic and other global cataclysms, the concept of resilience as stress resistance is gaining more and more popularity in economic science. It is even about the paradigmatic change of Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0, the characteristic of economical resilience for which should be significant, while the industry itself is given the role of necessary transformations’ driver. A fairly widespread version of resilience in the economy i...

Against the background of anthropogenic change, rapidly rising global temperatures and extremes of crisis across multiple spheres, the real possibility of synchronous inter-systemic failure at a level involving multiple cascading system failures (Homer-Dixon et.al. 2015) demands urgent responses. From this perspective, the need for an integrated, whole-system approach to understanding and fostering radical social and ecological transformation has never been starker. The impact of rapid and irreversible biospheric changes calls for an urgent re-thinking of the role of resilience in understandin...

In the first part of this article, some basic elements are offered which can help to understand resilience. This understanding requires a perspective centered on the abilities and resources. However, resilience is not a resistance to varied aggressions, nor corresponds it to invulnerability. It involves adjustment mechanisms but it is essentially a dynamic psychological process of mentalization and elaboration which can develop only in intersubjectivity. So, the family can represent a privileged place for resilience to emerge, but it is also a fragile space which can itself be the point of imp...

Abstract This article addresses the rising policy and academic concern with resilience. We trace the etymology of resilience and go on to focus on three academic narratives that have emerged: the psychological, the sociological and the whole-life. Comparing academic views on various states of resilience with policy narratives, we home in on the mobilisation of resilience in the area of counter terrorism. Highlighting an uncomfortable fit between academic and policy narratives, we posit that contemporary forms of neo-liberal governance do not simply attest to a search for resilience, but are in...

Indian agriculture remains the mainstay of India’s economic trajectory both in terms of growth rates as well as an increasingly residual provider of employment especially for those who are being thrown off the main pages of this non-inclusive growth path. This is so not only historically but also very much today particularly in the aftermath of a disastrous and uncaring pandemic response policy that has long-term gendered impacts. The concept of ‘resilience’ consequently has to be viewed in the context of whether this ‘resilience’ is voluntary or forced, whether those who are ‘resilient’ have ...

This paper introduces a questionnaire as a measurement tool that will help evaluate the armed forces’ resilience to hybrid interference. It is based on the previously developed conceptualisation of resilience as consisting of the national, social, institutional, and psychological dimensions and guides the reader through the operationalisation of the corresponding variables in the form of a questionnaire to be distributed within different groups of the Czech Armed Forces.

Forget the ‘edge vs cloud’ debate. These technologies each have their place, but they are both vulnerable to certain kinds of threats. And it is these risks that should be front of mind – especially for organisations adapting to new kinds of working.

President Charles I. Plosser discusses the meaning of resilience and shares his personal experiences with resilient communities, in opening remarks at "Reinventing Older Communities: Building Resilient Cities," in Philadelphia. He also outlines the Bank's new research project to measure urban resilience.

Resiliency in an ERS context is examined and multiple perspectives of resilience for consideration when developing modeling and simulation platforms to support analysis of systems under acquisition consideration are presented.

La noticia pasó prácticamente desapercibida, y no ocupó más de tres o cuatro líneas de los periódicos, preocupados de cosas mucho más importantes para la especie humana tales como los romances televisivos o los goles del fin de semana. Sucede que durante el sexagésimo sexto período de sesiones de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, el secretario general Ban Ki-moon entregó a todos los representantes del mundo ahí reunidos, confiando en que estos lo hagan llegar a sus pueblos, las conclusiones y recomendaciones del panel de expertos de alto nivel sobre sostenibilidad global. “Pedí al gr...

WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD city or community, the first image that comes to mind is probably of a street: specifically a roadway and sidewalks, framed by buildings and full of people. We intuitively know that a street is more than just pavement and vehicles.

An alternative way of characterizing resilient and exposure-resilient objects is explored that ties them explicitly to the theory of randomness extractors and simplifies current proofs of basic results.

. This theoretical paper takes an aesthetic view of leadership to investigate the leadership needed to make cities more resilient. It sees an urban system as a complex, evolving entity constantly crossed by a variety of inflows and outflows connecting it to other systems, while its constituent elements are in interaction between themselves. Three fundamental dispositions in the aesthetic literature - aesthetic sensibility, aesthetic reflexivity and practical wisdom-seem crucial to ensure that leaders anticipate and cope with a variety of shocks, taking advantage of the available opportunities ...

Resilient MSMEs can be influenced by strong entrepreneurial resilience and organizational resilience in facing the challenges of business competition dynamics. This study discussion aims to analyze the success of the seller's intelligent proactive ability in bridging entrepreneurial resilience and organizational resilience in resilient MSMEs, as well as the effect of moderation of environmental turbulence from the relationship of the smart proactive ability of sellers to resilient MSMEs. A total of 186 respondents were sampled to MSME businesses, data collection techniques in the form of quest...

Psikolojik sağlamlık genel olarak, bazı olumsuz olaylar sonrası yeniden güçlü, sağlıklı ve başarı olabilme yeteneği olarak tanımlanmaktadır ve üç özelliği bulunmaktadır (risk faktörleri, koruyucu faktörler ve olumlu sonuçlar). Diğer öğrenciler ile karşılaştırıldığında hemşirelik öğrencileri ciddi oranda akademik ve klinik stres yaşadıklarından, hemşirelik öğrencilerinde psikolojik sağlamlığın anlaşılması oldukça önemlidir. Öğrencilerin akademik ve mesleki yaşantılarında karşılaştıkları zorluklar ile yüzleşebilmeleri için psikolojik sağlamlıklarını geliştirmeleri gerekmektedir ve bu konuda hemş...

Climate change and its impacts are pushing the agriculture sector to a new normal. The sustenance of a system thus requires updating of technologies and practices consistently. Resilience at individual level and society level has an important say in satisfying these requirements. The technologies offering resilience to the changing contexts of agriculture became an imperative to keep the sector and its dependents secured. The need is to measure resilience of farmers after implementation of the technologies. A composite index measuring resilience is developed after rigorous procedures to meet t...

The aim of this paper is to identify the dimensions of resilience undertaken in literature, characteristics describing resilient systems and spatial scales in the context of which resilience research and strategic planning are carried out. The research method was desk research within which the papers that were reviewed were selected based on scientific journal reputation including the high Impact Factor. References to resilience in strategic planning were selected on the basis of information about international organizations dealing with resilience mentioned in scientific articles. Based on br...

Purpose: This research explores the impact of disaster resilience, social resilience, organizational resilience, and business resilience on the growth of multinational corporations (MNCs) in Australia. The research aims to investigate the influence of these resilience variables on MNC growth in Australia. Theoretical framework:  The theoretical framework is developed based on the concepts of disaster resilience, social resilience, business resilience, organizational resilience, and MNC growth. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was used as the research instrument to collect data, a...

Since the 1970s, a proliferation of research and concept analysis of resiliency/e has attempted to clarify whether it is a trait or a state. Based on this dualistic approach, studies have either operationalized “resiliency” as a personality trait or “resilience” as a dynamic state. The present review of the concept argues that the trait-state dualism is likely to be a conceptual fallacy, one fundamental reason for the lack of consensus. To facilitate and build consensus, the present conceptual review calls for a transactional approach instead of the dualistic approach to the definition.

It is concluded that patients with affective disorders fail to increase the complexity of their mood variation to the the same extent as resilient individuals when exposed to the same load of adversity, and it is proposed that rigid emotion regulation processes may be causing this attenuated response.

Resilience can be ‘Resilience can be ‘encouraged, cultivated or encouraged, cultivated or disrupted, but certainly not taught or imparted by wellimparted by well-intentioned professionals’ intentioned professionals’ (Furedi 2009, p. 99). Rather, resilience emerges from the actions people take when faced with challenging and unexpected circumstances and ‘through improvisation and adaptation’ to changeable and challenging circumstances (Furedi 2008, p. 658).

The concept of resilience is becoming popular in the business continuity management debate and academic analysis. This interest is associated with the concern to develop a resilient organization that is able to absorb, adapt and recover quickly from unexpected events or changes to ensure continuous services or critical business function and operations. Literature analysis from related articles found that resilience is still a relatively new concept and there are some unanswered questions on the definition of organization's resilience, the capacity that make up resilience and the mechanisms to ...

Abstract A study was made of the methods and machines used in measuring resilience and classified as of the impact, free oscillation, forced oscillation, or other type: A search of the literature revealed that resilience is affected by numerous factors, such as temperature, duration of loading, magnitude of stress, method of applying stress, amplitude, frequency, and energy losses during measurement ; by shape and thickness of the sample, and by the state of cure, amount and type of plasticizer, amount and type of fillers, and the type of elastomer used. A series of Neoprene compounds was comp...

The study looked at young people who were classified as being at risk of engaging in delinquent behaviour but who did not do so, highlighting the need for programs that provide support for families in crisis and for greater recognition of the nurturing role schools can play through the establishment of clubs and associations on school premises.

This article is the first in a series of six articles looking at the maintenance and promotion of midwives' own wellbeing and resilience, which will cover these topics: the resilient midwife, the mindful midwives, the self-compassionate midwife", the assertive midwife), the acknowledging midwife and the relational midwife.

The recently published 6 Assessment Report of the IPCC Working Group II further confirms rapid and widespread impacts of climate change on human wellbeing and the natural systems around the world which were well documented in the previous climate assessments [1]. While the world needs to implement ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions to avoid catastrophic impacts, the effects of climate change are felt acutely today and the poor and the most vulnerable people and regions are disproportionately affected [2, 3]. In this context, scaling up climate adaptation and resilience actions and fi...

Ecological science has been shaped largely by the biological sciences. Environmental science, on the other hand, has been shaped largely by the physical sciences and engineering. With the beginning of interdisciplinary efforts between the two fields, some of the fundamental differences between them are generating conflicts caused more by misunderstanding of basic concepts than by any difference in social purposes or methods. Those differences are most vivid in that part of ecology called ecosystem science, for it is there that it is obvious that both the biota and the physical environment inte...

<p>Communities around the world in flood-prone regions are increasingly aware of the benefits of using spatial data to better understand their predicament. With the advent of web mapping, free and open satellite data and the proliferation of mobile technologies, the possibilities for both understanding and improving community resilience are on the rise.</p><p>Here we present the &#8220;Flood Resilience Dashboard&#8221;, which is designed to put geo-spatial flood resilience data into the hands of practitioners. The objective is to provide a platform for practitioners in the Zurich Flood Resilie...

Your 30-second summary. This blog is about resilience. A term that is now, seemingly, everywhere. Below I provide a quick overview of the term and of psychological research into the resilience of children. Then I contrast these research findings which note multiple contributing factors at multiple levels, with the focus of many resilience interventions: often the individual in isolation. I note how this reflects an old but important debate within psychology that sparked the emergence of community psychology from clinical psychology in the 1960s. I also explore how resilience researchers today ...

Resilience, the ability to function under adversity, is important in most aspects of life, but especially so in organizations (Britt et al., 2016; Caza and Milton, 2012). Workers face mounting stress from chronic issues such as employment uncertainty, growing work demands, 24/7 connectivity, and blurring work boundaries (Ashford et al., 2018; Kolb et al., 2012; Kossek and Perrigino, 2016). Moreover, acute workplace crises may be increasing in severity and frequency (Williams et al., 2017). As a result, it seems hard to overstate the importance of being able to recover from challenges at work. ...

Resilience in organizations denotes system agility and robustness, essential to survival and thriving in increasingly challenging contexts. Contemporary scholarship has acknowledged the relationship between employee resilience and organizational resilience. Yet interventions aimed at developing employee resilience tend to use stress and well-being as proxy resilience indicators, focusing primarily on individual rehabilitation or the development of personal resources. We argue that these interventions should also consider the development of organizational resources that ensure both the inherent...

ABSTRACT In this short essay debating the politics of resilience, I draw from the circulation of resilience discourses following the Milwaukee Uprising of 2016 to argue that critiques of resilience planning in such cities of the global west must be situated within the context of racial capitalism. I further contend that resilience-informed urban projects are often underpinned by an uncritical embrace of notions of public safety and crime that bolster racialized logics of securitization and carcerality. I conclude by suggesting that rather than seeking to recuperate resilience, we instead shoul...

Four scenarios are presented to explore the relationship between time and the value of resilience of a product or system: perishable commodity packaging, thevalue of resilience rapidly diminishes after the contents’ expiry, a consumer durable product for use in an evolving environment and interface requirement, a national infrastructure asset, where usage increases during the system life, and a factory.

ABSTRACT This paper argues that resilience of a place cannot necessarily be associated only with the level of its vulnerability to the environment or security. A place-based perspective to resilience helps understand the capacity of communities to withstand or adapt with change. Resilience of a place does not only refer to contingencies—such as formulating immediate responses to crisis situations or incidents such as earthquakes, floods or other disasters in vulnerable areas—but also considers long-term mitigation and adaptation strategies to face social, economic and environmental challenges....