M ost of us at some point will be struck by one or more major traumas. While there is no standard definition of resilience, resilience is an agenda. An integral part of our journey has been to understand what human resilience is, what the most effective ways to grow it are, and how we can best communicate this information to others. The commission rejected the energy secretarys assertion that retirement of coal and nuclear plants threatens electric resilience. Newspaper headlines declared the winners of the 2004 world series, the boston red sox, a resilient team. Resilience is a convenient label to describe things that bounce back. Overall, the ontology constrains the interpretation of resilience thereby quelling the ambiguities that permeate the concept.
And yet, this field requires working definitions to encompass and inform our collective work. Instead, it just means that theyve found a pretty good way of dealing with it more quickly than others. Resilience and strengthening resilience in individuals january 2011 uk. Instead, they tend to be characterised by an attempt to combine several of the. The resilience prescription icahn school of medicine at. Each nato member country needs to be resilient to resist and recover from a major shock such as a natural disaster, failure of critical infrastructure, or a hybrid or armed attack. In summary, the key messages to emerge from the liter. Department of commerce national institute of standards and technology office of applied economics engineering laboratory.
As a complex human experience and process, it is challenging to define human resilience. My definition focuses on the capacity to mobilise corporate, workforce and personal characteristics that go towards forming an attitude to an event. Carver university miami this article addresses distinctions underlying concepts of resilience and thriving and issues in conceptualizing thriving. Defining the model for utilityled renewable microgrids 4 at a time when there was only one other gridscale lithiumion battery owned and operated by an iou,11 pge partnered with suppliers to build the salem smart power center.
Instead ferc plans to look at broader challenges that may influence the reliable flow of energy in competitive wholesale markets, among them severe weather, physical and cyber attacks, accidents and fuel supply disruptions. Most of these studies have been summarized in amsel 1992 and wong 1995. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune. And most definitions of resilience share four common elements which can be used to do this. For example, a high degree of maternal care and protection may be resilienceenhancing during infancy, but may interfere with individuation during adolescence or young adulthood. On the definition of resilience in systems, risk analysis. On the definition of resilience in systems on the definition of resilience in systems haimes, yacov y. Pdf resilience definitions, theory, and challenges. While there is no standard definition of resilience, resilience is an agenda shared by actors concerned with threats to development, whether financial, political, disaster, conflict or climate related. Resilience is enhanced when feedbacks are transmitted effectively. They do not cause resilience but rather are the positive developmental outcomes demonstrating that this innate capacity is engaged. This formal theory of resilience marks the initial steps towards its operationalization. Guest editor for the resilience issue while it is clear that the pace and pattern of global economic growth is unsustainable, we are slow in responding to this challenge. Sustainability advocates offer visions of a utopian future in which human needs are fulfilled and resource consumption is balanced with planetary capacity.
Thriving physical or psychological may reflect decreased reactivity to subsequent stressors, faster recovery from subse. A manufacturer chose resilience as the brand name for its pantyhose. Resilience is based on an individuals access to multiple resources i. The proliferation of disasters has gotten a lot of people talking about resilience, about how we can lessen our risk and how we can recover more quickly from disasters of all kinds. In this definition resilience is the property of the. A framework for defining and measuring resilience at the community scale. Determining levels of resilience is an important part of understanding the concept. Visualisation of protective mechanisms 12 boxes box 1. In other words, it is the organizations ability to handle and control. Pdf how to combine resilience theory with regional policies. Resilience is related to, but not the linear opposite of, concepts such as depression, anxiety or ptsd 11 figure 3. Personal resilience overview introduction as the pace of change in the world continues to increase, managing the many disruptions in our lives has become one of the most important tasks we face. The job needs a selfconfident person with a resilience to stress. The multidisciplinary panel of experts were drawn from the fields of community resilience.
Resilience was defined by most as the ability to recover from setbacks. The trait of resilience has, in fact, been used to. Resilience is ordinary magic all of us have the power within to bounce back from failure. Vulnerability and resilience from a sociospatial perspective. Operational resilience is both a process and a characteristic of an organization to adapt rapidly to changing environments and needs. This book defines national resilience, describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the united states. The second principle is the omnivory principle, which holds that external shocks are. Resilience doesnt mean the person doesnt feel the intensity of the event or problem. It is an organizational trait that allows it to carry out its mission or business despite the presence of operational stress and disruption. Resilience definition is the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress. Attitude precedes the action that is taken in response to an event. Stress factors and attributes combine together in predicting.
Interdisciplinary perspectives article pdf available in european journal of psychotraumatology 5 october 2014 with 16,766 reads. The employees showed remarkable resilience and loyalty despite all the difficulties. Resilience and strengthening resilience in individuals. Resilience definition of resilience by merriamwebster. A national imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nations resilience to disasters. A novel approach to exploring the concept of resilience and. Resilience strategies and approaches to contain systemic. Positive attitude optimism is strongly related to resilience. The resilience strategy of humanitarian actors in the sahel is informed by a number of key assumptions. Personal resilience strengths are the individual characteristics, also called internal assets or personal competencies, associated with healthy development and life success. The scale and the impact of disasters today can be greater than anything weve previously experienced, said laurie mazur at the wilson center on march 18. Experts from different fields of research were brought together to discuss resilience and its relevance to the dhs workforce. Resilience simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cmusei2011tr019 1 1 introduction the purpose of this technical report is to present operational resilience measures developed through ongoing research that was first reported in measuring operational resilience using the cert resilience management model allen 2010.
An operational definition of resilience building a. Resilience enables organizations to anticipate and respond to threats and opportunities, arising from sudden or gradual changes in their internal and external context. On current trends, as the operating environment deteriorates, the humanitarian case load will continue to grow, even without a major weather event. Robust resilience through civil preparedness in allied. Optimism is in part genetic, but it can be learned cognitive behavioral therapy. Resilience and commitment after a merger or acquisition. The resilience alliance is a research network that focuses on socialecological resilience resilience, a short encyclopedic article coauthored by holling in pdf format or html conversion format. Review of resilience in the academic literature 29 4. In fact, to be resilient you have to struggle and fail. Resilience may change over time as a function of development and ones interaction with the environment e. Masten, 2001, yet it has also provoked skepticism, represented in the words of kaplan 1999, who suggests that it is a concept whose time has come and gone p. The resilience engineering network is an open organisation of people and places that focus on safety in complex systems.
In hazards research, the definition of resilience is refined to mean the ability to. Resilience meaning in the cambridge english dictionary. Current theories relating to resilience and young people a literature. Resilience definition of resilience by the free dictionary. The industry has developed a resilience to the dips the national economy may take. Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to respond and adapt to change. General resilience is the capacity of the system to deal with unidentified shocks or. We also provide a rationale for the definition of resilience that is employed in the remainder of this paper.
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