Top Research Papers on Resilience

It is argued that urban resilience implementation raises its own conceptual questions for both theory and practice, and the idea of resilience resistance is introduced as a new challenge for urban resilience.

Organizing for Resilience provides a fresh and novel insight into research on how leaders can prepare their organizations to face up to shocks and disruptions in a turbulent and unpredictable world. It provides an analysis of the topic of organizational resilience in a comprehensive and integrative way, with fresh theoretical and research implications as well as important implications for leaders.The first book to synthesize themes from across a spectrum of resilience using the metaphor of a 'resilience landscape', chapters in Part I are devoted to five analytical levels: individual level resi...

This essay selectively reviews the copious literature that now exists on the long-term impact of natural disasters and suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic will only significantly alter urban fortunes if it is accompanied by a major economic shift, such as widespread adoption of remote work, or political shifts that lead businesses and the wealthy to leave urban areas.

Abstract Multisystemic Resilience brings together for the first time in one volume a wide range of resilience experts. By placing side-by-side the writing of psychologists, epigeneticists, ecologists, architects, disaster specialists, engineers, sociologists and public health researchers (to name just a few of the disciplines represented), this innovative volume provides insights into how to research resilience across systems and the many possible solutions to problems that threaten the physical and mental health of individuals, the wellbeing of our communities and the sustainability of our pl...

Decades of research have consistently shown that the most common outcome following potential trauma is a stable trajectory of healthy functioning, or resilience. However, attempts to predict resilience reveal a paradox: the correlates of resilient outcomes are generally so modest that it is not possible accurately identify who will be resilient to potential trauma and who not. Commonly used resilience questionnaires essentially ignore this paradox by including only a few presumably key predictors. However, these questionnaires show virtually no predictive utility. The opposite approach, captur...

This report is devoted to a comprehensive review of resilience function and regime shift of complex systems in different domains, such as ecology, biology, social systems and infrastructure, and discusses some ambiguous definitions, including robustness, resilience, and stability.

Resilience" is becoming a buzzword.Sometimes it is open to interpretation and sometimes it is simply wrong.This misuse is detracting from an important and much-needed basis for managing agricultural regions, rivers, fisheries, natural ecosystems, cities, communities, people-all of which are complex systems.To help overcome the misunderstandings the following is a brief outline of what resilience is and what it is not, based on research over the past 50 years.

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy has had disastrous effects on the national economy. The hospitality sector has experienced a significant impact from the crisis: starting from March 2020 it has literally collapsed. Experts believe it will take three years for the sector to recover. Confronted with a dramatic uncertainty, which imposed rapid action, hospitality leaders need to nurture resilience. To enrich current understanding of the way resilient leadership unfolds to respond to jolts, we draw on an exploratory qualitative research involving Italian hotel managers. Following in-de...

Abstract Many existing studies and models of supply chain resilience conceptualize resilience from the perspective of an equilibrium‐seeking focal firm or industry. The term “supply chain resilience” is often discussed as a dimension of firm resilience, as opposed to a standalone concept. In this context, resilience is defined according to how well a firm or industry can respond to a disruption while maintaining existing structures and processes and then “bounce back” to a pre‐disruption equilibrium or “bounce forward” to a new, presumably better, equilibrium in the shortest amount of time wit...

Abstract Reducing hazard‐induced disruptions to infrastructure functionality is cardinal to regional resilience. Specifically, effective strategies to enhance regional resilience require: (a) developing mathematical models for infrastructure recovery; (b) quantifying resilience associated with the developed recovery process; and (c) developing a computationally manageable approach for resilience optimization. This paper proposes a rigorous mathematical formulation to model recovery, quantify resilience, and optimize the resilience of large‐scale infrastructure. Specifically, a multiscale model...

This debate paper defines healthcare resilience as the capacity to adapt to challenges and changes at different system levels, to maintain high quality care and proposes a working definition of healthcare resilience that underpins the international RiH research programme.

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Resilience experts believe that anyone can strengthen their resilience and thus contribute to the advancement of health and, if ill, ease the illness, accelerate and facilitate healing.

We describe a framework for understanding the factors that underpin economic resilience, and identify the basic tools for implementing it. This principally involves examining resilience by design, which promotes endogenous reorganization in the economy, and by intervention, which includes exogenous measures such as bailouts, stockpiles and building buffers. We link these ideas to comparable notions from physics, such as the rich and non-trivial phenomenology that arises in circumstances when a system is dynamic and out of equilibrium. We contend that a more nuanced understanding of the underly...

It is described how authoritarian regimes have adapted their strategies of censorship to reduce both awareness of censorship and demand for uncensored information.

Abstract Is resilience always adaptive and functional, or can resilience be maladaptive in contexts where it masks vulnerability or prevents effective action to address risk? In this paper, we propose a new reading of resilience research which challenges the prevailing positive perspective and instead proposes that negative aspects of resilience are common. We focus on studying resilience on a spectrum, distinguishing between degrees of functionality by asking three questions: (1) Is there a wrong degree of resilience? (2) Is there a wrong context for resilience? and (3) Is there a wrong type ...

The human mouth harbors a complex microbiota, the composition of which is potentially influenced by a wide range of factors, including the intake of food and drink, the availability of endogenous nutrients, the host immune system, drug treatments, and systemic diseases.

The occurrence of large-scale disturbances is increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world. As a consequence of this trend, a primary concern of today’s power system is to enhance its resilience against low-probability, high-impact events. In this regard, microgrids, as the smart grid’s building blocks, offer promising approaches toward achieving higher levels of distribution system resilience by accommodating and integrating various distributed energy resources. Accordingly, microgrid-based techniques have been the focus of a growing body of research seeking a more resilient power syst...

Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many ecosystems are realigning rapidly across spatial scales, in many cases moving outside of their observed historical range of variation into alternative ecological states. In some cases, these new states are transitory and represent successional stages that may ultimately revert to the pre-disturbance condition; in other cases, alternative states are persistent and potentially self-reinforcing, especially under conditions of altere...

A new methodology is proposed to analyze existing products in view of their functional and physical architecture, and suggests how to achieve appropriate smart manufacturing systems’ resilience from a human-centric perspective through the means of the Operator 4.0 typology and its related technical solutions.