General resilience depends on diversity, modularity, and feedbacks
The general resilience of a system refers to its ability to withstand disturbances that the system has never encountered before. It is affected by three factors:
What confers general resilience? Studies of a variety of social-ecological systems … suggest three factors that probably play an important role in maintaining it are diversity, modularity, and the tightness of feedbacks—all key features identified for ecosystems.[1]
See also:
- Diversity of a system affects resilience
- Modularity of a system affects resilience
- Tightness of feedback loops affects a system’s resilience
- Resilient systems require both specified and general resilience
Resilience Thinking – Walker and Salt (2012), ch. 5, § “General and Specified Resilience.” ↩︎