Resilience Science Must-Knows

The document outlines nine core principles of resilience science, defining resilience as the capacity to cope, adapt, and transform amidst uncertainty. It emphasizes that resilience is a cyclical process of learning and innovation that requires diversity, strong social and ecological relationships, and the active management of trade-offs. The text argues that investing in resilience reduces future costs and requires addressing power imbalances and historical injustices to ensure equitable outcomes.

• Resilience is defined as more than recovery to a previous state; it is the ability to live and develop during change and uncertainty through the capacities to cope, adapt, and transform.
• Investing in resilience provides a return that significantly exceeds the initial cost by protecting the social, economic, and ecological foundations of long-term human prosperity.
• Diversity is a fundamental pillar of resilience, encompassing biodiversity as well as a variety of knowledge systems, cultures, practices, social structures, institutions, and livelihoods to enable adaptation and transformation.
• Achieving equitable resilience requires the direct confrontation of social inequalities, power imbalances, and historical injustices to avoid reinforcing systems that create vulnerability.
• Resilience is a cyclical process involving continuous experimentation, learning, and innovation, where understanding the shifts between rapid change and relative stability leads to more sustainable futures.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (n.d.). Resilience Science Must-Knows. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_pt.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Resilience Science Must-Knows. n.d. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rsmk_2pager_pt.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_pt.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }