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The amount of disturbance a system can absorb before it flips into a different regime with a different structure. Resilience here is about persistence across multiple possible stable states, not about returning to one.[1]
The speed and reliability with which a system returns to its single equilibrium after a disturbance. Holling named this in 1996 explicitly to separate it from the ecological meaning; the collision was drawn by the same author who created both constructs. Infrastructure research operationalizes it as loss of functionality over time (the "resilience triangle"), with four properties: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, rapidity.[2][3]
Good adaptation despite serious threats to development. It is inferred, not measured directly: a child must have faced significant risk and be doing well. Masten's argument was that this is "ordinary magic", the product of common adaptive systems, not a rare trait.[4]
A self-reported individual characteristic: the capacity to cope with stress, or, more narrowly, the ability to bounce back from it. This is the meaning most self-report scales measure, and it is the one most often pooled with the developmental meaning under a single heading.[5][6][7]
A process linking a set of adaptive capacities (economic development, social capital, information and communication, community competence) to adaptation after a disturbance. Norris and colleagues were explicit that it is a metaphor, a theory, a set of capacities, and a strategy at once, and that the unit is the community, not the individuals in it.[8]
The energy per unit volume a material can absorb elastically and give back on unloading, the modulus of resilience, the area under the stress–strain curve up to the yield point. This is the oldest technical meaning, and the one the word carried before any of the others borrowed it.[9]
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