Resilience Science Must-Knows

The document outlines nine fundamental principles of resilience science, emphasizing that resilience involves the capacity to cope, adapt, and transform rather than simply 'bouncing back'. It highlights the importance of diversity, relationship-building, agency, and the need to address power imbalances and social inequalities to ensure equitable resilience. The principles argue that investing in resilience reduces future costs and requires a continuous cycle of learning and innovation to navigate accelerating risks within planetary boundaries.

• Resilience is defined as the ability to live and develop with change and uncertainty, requiring the capacities to cope, adapt, and transform. This framework is based on the premise that human well-being depends on the stability of the Earth system and must exist within planetary boundaries.
• The 'Must-Knows' identify several critical drivers of resilience: diversity (including biodiversity and diverse knowledge systems), strong relationships between people and nature, and the empowerment of agency to enable intentional action.
• Effective resilience requires the management of trade-offs across different scales and generations, as well as the direct addressing of power imbalances and historical injustices to avoid reinforcing systems that create vulnerability.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (n.d.). Resilience Science Must-Knows. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_eng_digital.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Resilience Science Must-Knows. n.d. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_eng_digital.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnershipndresilience, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{Resilience Science Must-Knows}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_eng_digital.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }