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+ | ===On Resilience === | ||
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- | Loosely defined, resilience is the capacity of a system—be it an individual, a forest, a city, or an economy—to deal with change and continue to develop. It is both about withstanding shocks and disturbances (like climate change or financial crisis) and using such events to catalyze renewal, novelty, and innovation. In human systems, resilience thinking emphasizes learning and social diversity. And at the level of the biosphere, it focuses on the interdependence of people and nature, the dynamic interplay of slow and gradual change. Resilience, above all, is about turning crisis into opportunity. | + | Loosely defined, resilience is the capacity of a system—be it an individual, a forest, a city, or an economy—to deal with change and continue to develop. It is both about withstanding shocks and disturbances (like climate change or financial crisis) and using such events to catalyze renewal, novelty, and innovation. In human systems, resilience thinking emphasizes learning and social diversity. And at the level of the biosphere, it focuses on the interdependence of people and nature, the dynamic interplay of slow and gradual change. Resilience, above all, is about turning crisis into opportunity. |
+ | --Carl Folke | ||
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- reduce uncertainty, | - reduce uncertainty, | ||
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- do unto others (I wonder whether this ought be "tit for tat" or the golden rule - do unto others as you would have them do on to you, or do unto others as they do unto you) | - do unto others (I wonder whether this ought be "tit for tat" or the golden rule - do unto others as you would have them do on to you, or do unto others as they do unto you) | ||
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+ | Like sustainability, | ||
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+ | - **Diversity**: | ||
+ | - **Redundancy**: | ||
+ | - **Decentralization**: | ||
+ | - **Collaboration**: | ||
+ | - **Transparency**: | ||
+ | - **Fail gracefully**: | ||
+ | - **Flexibility**: | ||
+ | - **Foresight**: | ||
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+ | === other metaphors, directions and questions === | ||
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+ | What I’m pointing at is that there’s an executive function in response to crisis: restore things to pre-crisis conditions using resilience models, or implement revolutionary change. Right now, what I’m not seeing in the dialogues about resilience that I’ve been exposed to is a clear discourse about resilience as an *alternative* to revolutionary change. I want to see a discourse about knowing when to make systems resilient and when to prime them for revolution. http:// | ||
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+ | The term “resilience” is often held by some to be the holy grail of social qualities for all organisations. | ||
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