Resilience is the capacity of a system,
be it an individual, a forest, a city or
an economy, to deal with change
and continue to develop. It is about
the capacity to use shocks and
disturbances like a financial crisis or
climate change to spur renewal and
innovative thinking. Resilience thinking
embraces learning, diversity and above
all the belief that humans and nature
are strongly coupled to the point that
they should be conceived as one socialecological
system.