What is Resilience

Ability to recover easily or to adapt to change and adversity. Learn more in: Resilience and Psychomotricity in Preschool Education: A Study with Children that are Socially, Culturally, and Economically Disadvantaged

The ability to recover from difficulties. Learn more in: Advocacy and Action in Appalachia Aimed at Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative

The ability to cushion problems. Learn more in: Application of the Effective Innovation Leadership Model in a Digital Innovation Project: Case Study

Resilience is the capacity of organism or system to withstand stress and catastrophe. In case of climate change the capacity of crop and livestock to withstand and sustain in the changing environment is the resilience. Learn more in: Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adoption, and Mitigation

Ability to respond and adapt to change. Learn more in: Global Higher Education and VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity

The capacity for self-organization, and to adapt to impact factors. Learn more in: Environmental Vulnerability to Climate Change in Mediterranean Basin: Socio-Ecological Interactions between North and South

The ability of the individual to adapt and function in a relatively healthy matter despite adverse experiences. Learn more in: Providing Primary Prevention and School Mental Health Services to LGBTQ+ Children and Youth: A Resiliency-Based Approach

The capacity of persistence without hesitation in face of a challenge or problem, until it is solved or reached. Learn more in: Social Entrepreneurship and Its Competences: Implications for Higher Education

In materials science, it describes the property of a material to come back to its original shape, after having suffered a deformation which does not exceed its elastic limit. Learn more in: Supply Chain Resilience

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A term defined in many ways. In this chapter “resilience” is viewed as evidenced through everyday processes and describes the quality in a person which enables them to overcome misfortunes and other challenges or barriers rather than be drained of resolve. A positive attitude, optimism, and an ability to regulate emotions are clear strengths of the resilient person. Learn more in: Social Work with Refugee Women: Narrative and “Empowerment”

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The ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to 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. ( ISDR, 2009 ). Learn more in: Managing Risk in Global Food Supply Chains: Improving Food Security and Sustainability

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The process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, stress. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences. Learn more in: I Am Happy, So I Learn It: The Ethical Dilemma of Choosing to Promote Happiness in an Education World of Standards

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An individual resistance to failure, usually in business. Learn more in: Entrepreneurship Concept, Theories, and New Approaches

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The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. It is the process of adapting well during adversity and stressful situations. One can learn to develop a resilient mindset and attitude. Learn more in: Overcoming Educational Challenges Through Social and Emotional Learning: Significance for the Whole Child

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In psychology, the ability of a person to overcome traumatic circumstances such as the death of a loved one, an accident, etc. Learn more in: Measurement of the Staff Resilience of the Technological Institute Lázaro Cárdenas

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The resilience of a CPS refers to its ability to quickly recover from a state of malfunction or security violation. Learn more in: Cyber Physical Systems: A Review

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The ability that the company has to recover from complicated situations, returning to a normal operating state. Learn more in: Circular Economy and Risk Management Synergies in Disruptive Environments

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Coming from the Latin root resi-lire, the concept was first used by physical scientists to describe the stability of materials and their resistance to external shocks. In the 1960s, along with the rise of systems thinking, resilience entered the field of ecology where multiple meanings of the concept have emerged. The conventional understanding of resilience applied to socioeconomic studies regards the bouncing-back ability of a socioeconomic system to recover from a shock or disruption. Today resilience is being influenced by an evolutionary perspective, underlining it as the bouncing-forward ability of the system to undergo anticipatory or reactionary reorganization to minimize the impact of destabilizing shocks and create new growth trajectories. Learn more in: Resilience, Innovation, and Knowledge Transfer: Conceptual Considerations and Future Research Directions

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A systemic quality of absorbing and recovering from attack, disruption or failure. Learn more in: Israel's Cyber Security Policy: Local Response to the Global Cybersecurity Risk

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The quality of being able to absorb systemic “shocks” without being destroyed even if recovery produces an altered state to that of the status quo ante. Learn more in: Regional Innovation Systems in Centralised States: Challenges, Chances, and Crossovers

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The ability to withstand stressful and adverse circumstances in one’s life as if one has some internal protective mechanism. Learn more in: Educating Highly Able Students from an African Perspective: A Focus on Indigenous Cultures of Zimbabwe's Views of Giftedness

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Whilst this has often been used to describe the ability to bounce back to a former, steady state following a disruption, recently there has been increasing interest in the use of resilience as an approach for managing complex adaptive systems toward desirable outcomes. From this perspective, resilience is not just the ability to sustain core functions, but to promote specific desirable outcomes which may involve systemic transformation and bouncing forward to a better position than before. Learn more in: Pedagogic Frailty and the Ecology of Teaching at University: A Case of Conceptual Exaptation

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Set of adaptive processes that promote encouragement, resistance and empowerment in the face of traumatic and / or stressful situations. Learn more in: Challenges of Parents With Children With Rare Diseases in Portugal: A Relational Perspective

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Resilience is a force against the negative risk impact the critical infrastructure. Learn more in: Uncertainties in Safety and Security: Uncertainties in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Human Factors

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The ability to recover from challenges or to overcome obstacles. In a social-ecological context this refers to the innovation capacity of the organization to successfully address societal and environmental challenges. Learn more in: Social-Ecological Innovation

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The capability of recovering, bouncing back or adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress. Learn more in: Situational Analysis of Muslim Children in the Face of Islamophobia: Theoretical Frameworks, Experiences, and School Social Work Interventions

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The ability of a project to readily resume from unexpected events, threats or actions. Learn more in: Shaping Mega-Science Projects and Practical Steps for Success

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The ability for organizations to resume their original state after a crisis or negative event. Learn more in: International Quality Standards Application to Administrative Processes of Higher Education

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In the context of a global tourism industry, is the ability of the employees to cope with challenges and be in harmony with the social and physical tourism environment they engage with. Learn more in: Balancing Value Co-Creation: Culture, Ecology, and Human Resources in Tourism Industry

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May be understood as the ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like in a context of impacting change. Learn more in: Production, Publication, and Use of Educational Multimedia Content in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities in Real World Technology Projects

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The ability of a project to readily resume from unexpected events, threats or actions. Learn more in: Shaping Mega-Science Projects and Practical Steps for Success

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The measure of one’s ability to function successfully in response to challenging circumstances. Learn more in: The Transformative Nature of Community Engagement in the Arts

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Resilience is a skill that enables human beings to cope in spite of setbacks, or barriers, or limited resources. Young people are strengthened and capacitated to bounce back after traumatic events. Learn more in: Inclusive Approaches to School Counseling: Arguing for Culturally-Responsive Psycho-Social Support for Learners From Indigenous Communities

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It is the attitude of adapting quickly to different situations in order to achieve the goal in the best way. Learn more in: The Role of the Entrepreneur in the Promotion of the Digital Economy: A Multi-Country Case Study Between Brazil and Portugal

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The ability of an infrastructure to resist, respond and overcome adverse events Learn more in: Business Continuity of Critical Infrastructures for Safety and Security Incidents

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The capacity of a system to experience stress and disruption while retaining their structure, functions and options to adapt. Learn more in: Building Adaptive Community Capacity to Meet the Challenges of Global Climate Change: Challenges for Community Leadership

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The capacity to rapidly recover from a state of difficulty and stress. Learn more in: Cultivating Flow and Happiness in Children

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The ability to recover quickly or adjust easily to life difficulties, misfortune or adversities. Learn more in: Counseling Chinese Communities in Malaysia: The Challenges and Needs in Mental Health Service Deliverance

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A company’s capability to adapt and cope with environmental disturbance. Learn more in: Business Model Development for Stability, Sustainability, and Resilience

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Resilience has been defined as “positive adaptation despite experience of significant adversity or trauma” ( Luthar, 2015 , p. 742). According to scholars of resilience and grit, “grit is not just having resilience in the face of failure, but also having deep commitments that you remain loyal to over many years” ( Perkins-Gough, 2013 ). Learn more in: How Children Fail: Exploring Parent and Family Factors That Foster Grit

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A capability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant multi-hazard threats with minimum damage to social well-being, the economy, and the environment. Learn more in: Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals Through Environmental Education

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A swarm is resilient if the loss of individual agents has little impact on the success of the task of the swarm. Learn more in: Security in Swarm Robotics

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the act of resolving conflicts, turning disruptive changes into new directions, learning from this process, and becoming more successful and satisfied in the process. Learn more in: Which Are the Appropriate Skills Needed for the Entrepreneurial Success of Startups in the Era of Digitalization?

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Is the system capacity to rebalance after a perturbation. Learn more in: Composite Indicators as Decision Support Method for Flood Analysis: Flood Vulnerability Index Category

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Mental processes and behaviours an individual uses to bounce back from a crisis or manage difficulty. Learn more in: Who Will Take Care of Me?: The Future of Human Resources in Anaesthesiology, Critical Care, and Emergency Medicine in Europe.

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Achievement of positive outcomes despite high-risk status ( Masten, 2001 ; Masten, Best, & Garmezy, 1990 ). Learn more in: Empowering African American Adolescent Males through Engaging Literacy Tasks

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The power within an individual, assisted by the protective factors extrinsic or intrinsic to the individual, which helps him or her to maintain wellness, or to bounce back to normalcy, even after facing tremendous setbacks in life. Learn more in: Stress and Resilience in Parents of Intellectually Disabled Children

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The ability to overcome in the face of adversity. Learn more in: Mind, Brain, and Education: Using Neuroscience to Teach Students Living in Poverty

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