Resilience Explained

Resilience, resilient, or resiliency may refer to:

Science

Ecology

• Ecological resilience, the capacity of an ecosystem to recover from perturbations
  • Climate resilience, the ability of systems to recover from climate change
  • Soil resilience, the ability of a soil to maintain a healthy state in response to destabilising influences

Social sciences

• Resilience in art, the property of artwork to remain relevant over changing times
• Resilience (organizational), the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function
• Psychological resilience, an individual's ability to adapt in the face of adverse conditions
• Supply chain resilience, the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change
• Urban resilience, the adaptive capacities of complex urban systems to manage change, order and disorder over time
• Community resilience, the adaptive capacities of communities and societies to manage change and adversities over time

Technology and engineering

• Resilience (engineering and construction), the ability of buildings and infrastructure to absorb assaults without suffering complete failure
• Resilience (power system)
• Resilience (materials science), the ability of a material to absorb energy when deformed, and release that energy upon unloading
• Resilience (network), the ability of a computer network to maintain service in the face of faults
• Resilience in the built environment
• Cyber resilience, in information security
• Resilient control systems, the engendering of cognitive, cyber-physical threat resilience into control systems
• a concept in energy development

Entertainment and media

• Resilience (film) (2006)
• Resilience (play) (2009)
• Resilience (sculpture), a sculpture in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Literature

• Resilience (Greitens book), "Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life", a 2015 book by Eric Greitens
• Resilience (2018), seventh book in Fletcher DeLancey's Chronicles of Alsea series
• , a memoir by Jessie Close with Pete Earley
• Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities, a 2009 book by Elizabeth Edwards
• Resilient (book), 2016 autobiography by Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson

Music

Songs

• "Resilience" (2008), by Annabelle Chvostek, off the eponymous album Resilience (Annabelle Chvostek album)
• "Resilience" (2012), by As I Lay Dying, off the album Awakened
• "Resilience" (2015), by Born of Osiris, off the album Soul Sphere
• "Resilient" (2013), by Running Wild, off the eponymous album Resilient
• "Resilient" (2020), by Katy Perry, off the album Smile (Katy Perry album)

Albums

• Resilient (Dope Saint Jude album) (2018)
• Resilient (Running Wild album) (2013)
• The Resilient (2017), album by Betraying the Martyrs
• Resilience (Annabelle Chvostek album) (2008)
• Resilience (Drowning Pool album) (2013)
• Resilience (Kid606 album) (2005)

Other uses

• Crew Dragon Resilience, a SpaceX Dragon 2 space capsule, C207, first used for the second crewed Dragon flight, NASA SpaceX Crew-1, first full-up crew mission to the ISS on the platform
• Resilience NSW, a government agency of the New South Wales government in Australia
• Resilience.org, a pro-environment website owned by the think tank Post Carbon Institute
• UK Resilience, a government agency of the United Kingdom

See also

• The Resilience Project, a project to identify protective factors against disease
• Resilience Alliance, a network that analyzes social interactions