Resilience

ability to "handle" a change/perturbation (even a Black Swan?)

• this could involve "returning to the original state"
• or changing without "damage" (Adaptable?)
• or should we aim for improvement from perturbation: Anti-Fragility?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_stability

Adapt to the Long Emergency?

http://wiki.ittc.ku.edu/resilinets_wiki/index.php/ResiliNets_Architecture Network design strategy - but with a bias toward expection of ability to "return to original state"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience Self Improvement

Urban Design: Resilient Community

some approaches

• increase Slack
• Loosely Coupled
• AlternateHardAndSoftLayers (Layer) - WikiWikiWeb:AlternateHardAndSoftLayers
• SmallWorld, Civil Society, Social Capital, Disaster Response...

The workbook wiki is based on Version 1.0 of the Practitioner's workbook "Assessing and Managing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems" http://wiki.resalliance.org/index.php/Main_Page