Resilience

Resilience, resilient, or resiliency may refer to:

Science

Ecology

• Ecological resilience, the capacity of an ecosystem to recover from perturbations
• Climate resilience, the ability of systems to recover from climate change
• Soil resilience, the ability of a soil to maintain a healthy state in response to destabilising influences

Social sciences

• Resilience in art, the property of artwork to remain relevant over changing times
• Resilience (organizational), the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function
• Psychological resilience, an individual's ability to adapt in the face of adverse conditions
• Supply chain resilience, the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change
• Urban resilience, the adaptive capacities of complex urban systems to manage change, order and disorder over time
• Community resilience, the adaptive capacities of communities and societies to manage change and adversities over time

Technology and engineering

• Resilience engineering, a research field seeking to understand how complex adaptive systems cope when encountering a surprise
• Resilience (engineering and construction), the ability of buildings and infrastructure to absorb assaults without suffering complete failure
• Resilience (power system)
• Resilience (materials science), the ability of a material to absorb energy when deformed, and release that energy upon unloading
• Resilience (network), the ability of a computer network to maintain service in the face of faults
• Cyber resilience, in information security
• Resilient control systems, the engendering of cognitive, cyber-physical threat resilience into control systems
• a concept in energy development
• Resilience, the micro-rover carried by the Japanese Hakuto-R Mission 2 to land on Earth's moon

Entertainment and media

Cinema

• Resilience (film) (2006)
• Resilience (play) (2009)
• Resilience (sculpture), a sculpture in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Literature

• Resilience (Greitens book), "Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life", a 2015 book by Eric Greitens
• Resilience (2018), seventh book in Fletcher DeLancey's Chronicles of Alsea series
• ', a memoir by Jessie Close with Pete Earley
• Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities, a 2009 book by Elizabeth Edwards
• Resilient (book), 2016 autobiography by Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson