Essential Characteristics of Resilience
Avoiding the Error of the Third Kind
When one uses the label ‘resilience,’ the first reaction is to think of resilience as if it were adaptability, i.e., as the ability to absorb or adapt to disturbance, disruption and change. But all systems adapt (though sometimes these processes can be quite slow and difficult to discern) so resilience cannot simply be the adaptive capacity of a system. I want to reserve resilience to refer to the broader capability – how well can a system handle disruptions and variations that fall outside of the base mechanisms/model for being adaptive as defined in that system.
This depends on a distinction between understanding how a system is competent at ...
Get Resilience Engineering now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
