An archaeology of societal resilience

Bergström, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2017.09.013

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“…As noted, the concept of 'resilience' is represented in different ways in theories from many and diverse scientific disciplines [2,4,9,20]. Many of these representations provide useful and relevant perspectives that refer to particular mechanisms of response.…”

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Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program

Wiig

Aase

Billett

et al. 2020

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background: Understanding the resilience of healthcare is critically important. A resilient healthcare system might be expected to consistently deliver high quality care, withstand disruptive events and continually adapt, learn and improve. However, there are many different theories, models and definitions of resilience and most are contested and debated in the literature. Clear and unambiguous conceptual definitions are important for both theoretical and practical considerations of any phenomenon, and resilience is no exception. A large international research programme on Resilience in Healthcare (RiH) is seeking to address these issues in a 5-year study across Norway, England, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and Switzerland (2018-2023). The aims of this debate paper are: 1) to identify and select core operational concepts of resilience from the literature in order to consider their contributions, implications, and boundaries for researching resilience in healthcare; and 2) to propose a working definition of healthcare resilience that underpins the international RiH research programme. Main text: To fulfil these aims, first an overview of three core perspectives or metaphors that underpin theories of resilience are introduced from ecology, engineering and psychology. Second, we present a brief overview of key definitions and approaches to resilience applicable in healthcare. We position our research program with collaborative learning and user involvement as vital prerequisite pillars in our conceptualisation and operationalisation of resilience for maintaining quality of healthcare services. Third, our analysis addresses four core questions that studies of resilience in healthcare need to consider when defining and operationalising resilience. These are: resilience 'for what', 'to what', 'of what', and 'through what'? Finally, we present our operational definition of resilience. Conclusion: The RiH research program is exploring resilience as a multi-level phenomenon and considers adaptive capacity to change as a foundation for high quality care. We, therefore, define healthcare resilience as: the capacity to adapt to challenges and changes at different system levels, to maintain high quality care. This working definition of resilience is intended to be comprehensible and applicable regardless of the level of analysis or type of system component under investigation.

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“…Ecological perspectives of resilience focus on the ability to adapt and reorganise to maintain core functions and activities. This perspective focuses on how biological systems and communities that face unpredictable and uncertain threats adapt to cope with these and maintain system stability [9,20].…”

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Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program

Wiig

Aase

Billett

et al. 2020

BMC Health Serv Res

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257

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“…This Latin word can be found in Lucretius' On the Nature of Things and Cicero's Orations (Alexander, 2013;Pizzo, 2015). Up to the early nineteenth century, this is the predominant understanding of resilience in common language, until engineers come to employ the term to describe properties of materials and the capacity of materials to absorb stresses and release energy, and recover their original form, without breaking or disfiguring, after undergoing some external shock or disturbance, such as an extreme weather event (Estêvão, Calado & Capucha, 2017;Bergström, 2018;Davoudi, 2018). In the 1950s, psychologists turn to resilience to analyze the coping mechanisms of concentration camp survivors; later, the concept is used to study all sorts of trauma, misfortune, adversity, stress and mental recovery (Bourbeau, 2015;Estêvão, Calado & Capucha, 2017;Bergström, 2018;Schwartz, 2018).…”

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“…incorporates resilience in a socio-ecological systems (SES) approach to analyze the stability of ecological assemblages as conditioned by, and conditioning, societies. Hence, in Holling's work, resilience has a relational and systemic focus in scientific enquiries into how nature and society interact -a line of enquiry that brings the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering together in an overarching SES framework (Alexander, 2013;Bergström, 2018;Béné et al, 2018;Hoekstra, Bredenhoff-Bijlsma & Krol, 2018). One could say today that a ubiquitous concept like resilience expresses a 'governmental philosophy of nature and society' (Walker & Cooper, 2011: 145), the ability par excellence to survive conflict and crisis.…”

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“…Hence, resilience to climate change is a matter of evolution: in naturalist social science resilience is presented as 'evolutionary resilience' (Pizzo, 2015: 137; Davoudi, 2018: 4). When this type of science comes to embrace Holling's SES approach in the 1970s, it incorporates the notion of resilience within the context of its complexity theoretic orientation (Wiese, 2016;Bergström, 2018). The ability to cope with uncertainty and complexity is found in the capacities and relations between multiple agents that are able to interact and self-organize, learn and https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2020-90 Preprint.…”

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Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Ossewaarde¹,

Filatova²,

Georgiadou³

et al. 2020

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Abstract. Since the 1970s, Holling's socio-ecological systems (SES) approach has been a most predominant theoretical force in resilience research in the context of the climate crisis. From Holling's approach, however, two contrasting scientific approaches to resilience have developed, namely, naturalism and constructivism. While naturalist resilience research takes SES as complex systems marked by non-linearity and evolutionary changes, constructivist resilience research focuses on the embeddedness of SES in heterogenous contexts. In naturalist resilience research resilience is defined as a system property, while in constructivist resilience research resilience is politically loaded and historically contingent. The aim of this paper is to review and structure current developments in resilience research in the field of climate change studies, in terms of the approaches, definitions, models and commitments that are typical for naturalism and constructivism; identify the key tension between naturalist and constructivist resilience research in terms of the widely discussed issue of adaptation and transformation, and discuss its implications for sustainable development; and propose a research agenda of topics distilled from the adaptation-transformation tension between naturalist and constructivist resilience research.

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Placemaking: An Urban Resilience Perspective

Campelo¹

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies

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An archaeology of societal resilience

Cited by 32 publications

References 47 publications

Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program

Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program

Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Placemaking: An Urban Resilience Perspective

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