Resilience

From Open Risk Manual

Definition

Resilience. The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through Risk Management.

  • The process and procedures required to maintain or recover critical services such as remote access or end-user support during a business interruption.
  • The magnitude of disturbance that an ecosystem or society can undergo without crossing a threshold to a situation with different structure or outputs i.e. a different state. Resilience depends on factors such as ecological dynamics as well as the organisational and institutional capacity to understand, manage, and respond to these dynamics [1].

See Also

References

  1. IPBES, 2019b