Disambiguating Resilience

Daniel Desiree, Ortmann Jens

Abstract

While the salience of resilience has been acknowledged across domains, there still exists the need to translate the abstract concept into an operational en- tity. In this paper, the first step towards making resilience operational is presented. Heading for an ontology as a reference frame in the long term, we analyze notions of social and ecological resilience across different domains, from which a a general definition of resilience is derived.