Resilience Science Must-Knows

The fact sheet outlines nine core principles of resilience science, emphasizing that resilience involves the ability to cope, adapt, and transform within planetary boundaries. It argues that investing in resilience reduces future costs and requires addressing power imbalances and social inequalities to ensure equitable outcomes.

• Resilience is defined not merely as recovery from a disturbance to a previous state, but as the ability to live and thrive amidst change and uncertainty, requiring a balance of capacities to cope, adapt, and transform systems away from undesirable trajectories.
• Investing in resilience provides a return that significantly exceeds initial costs by protecting the social, economic, and ecological foundations of human prosperity.
• Systemic resilience depends on diversity as a source of innovation and persistence, as well as strong relationships between people and with nature to strengthen flows of knowledge, trust, and resources.
• Achieving equitable resilience requires the direct addressing of historical injustices, social inequalities, and power imbalances to prevent resilience interventions from reinforcing the systems that create vulnerability.
• Resilience is a dynamic cycle of continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation, which requires managing trade-offs across different scales, interests, and generations to avoid unforeseen harm.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (n.d.). Resilience Science Must-Knows. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_es.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Resilience Science Must-Knows. n.d. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_es.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_es.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }