Measuring and assessing resilience: broadening understanding through multiple disciplinary perspectives
Acadia University · University of Waterloo · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Summary Increased interest in managing resilience has led to efforts to develop standardized tools for assessments and quantitative measures. Resilience, however, as a property of complex adaptive systems, does not lend itself easily to measurement. Whereas assessment approaches tend to focus on deepening understanding of system dynamics, resilience measurement aims to capture and quantify resilience in a rigorous and repeatable way. We discuss the strengths, limitations and trade‐offs involved in both assessing and measuring resilience, as well as the relationship between the two. We use a range of disciplinary perspectives to draw lessons on distilling complex concepts into useful metrics. Measuring and…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 34.98
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 68
Authors
4Topics & keywords
- Resilience (materials science)
- Context (archaeology)
- Discipline
- Computer science
- Set (abstract data type)
- Process management
- Risk analysis (engineering)
- Socio-ecological system