Definitely need to dive deeper into resilience and examine its relationship with engineering practice and sustainable society. Consider that we need the following so that we can be resilient [1]. How could we integrate these into our design reasoning?

From Resilience Practice, four properties of resilient systems, the first three yield adaptability

• diversity
• modularity
• openness
• reserves

From the Stockholm Resilience Institute, two things resilient systems do

• manage connectivity
• broaden participation

From the Rockefeller Foundation, four properties of resilient systems

• robustness
• redundancy
• flexibility
• inclusiveness

From Resilience: why things bounce back, four things resilient systems do

• build regenerative capacity
• sense emerging risks
• respond to disruption
• learn and transform (feedback loops)

Do we all need reference copies of this book? I had to return it to our community public library today to allow another member of our community learn, too.

[1]:Lerch et al. The community resilience reader - essential resources for an era of upheaval

[2]:Walker, Brian. Salt, David. Resilience Practice - Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function

[3]:Zolli, Andrew. Resilience: why things bounce back.