Resilience

Similar to risk, resilience is also defined in multiple ways, but generally means to ‘bounce back’ from the impact of a hazardous event. Resilience can refer to a wide variety of physical, social, political and biological entities including a community, nation or state, financial institution, rain forest or human individual. In ecology, it specifically refers to the capability of a system to absorb a shock or threat in maintaining its current state without shifting to another. In society, it can refer to the ability of people to survive in the face of disaster often through finding ways to cope with the challenges they face, such as confronting the impact of large-scale disasters in the communities where they live.