Resilience: Why Things Bounce BackDiscover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole. What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of forces beyond our control? Or, in the face of constant disruption, can we build better shock absorbers—for ourselves, our communities, our economies, and for the planet as a whole? Reporting firsthand from the coral reefs of Palau to the back streets of Palestine, Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy relate breakthrough scientific discoveries, pioneering social and ecological innovations, and important new approaches to constructing a more resilient world. Zolli and Healy show how this new concept of resilience is a powerful lens through which we can assess major issues afresh: from business planning to social development, from urban planning to national energy security—circumstances that affect us all. Provocative, optimistic, and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on why some systems, people, and communities fall apart in the face of disruption and, ultimately, how they can learn to bounce back. |
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RESILIENCE: Why Things Bounce Back
User Review - KirkusZolli and Healy seek to define how systems and people maintain their capacity to continue and recover from adversity.The authors report on global situations with a variety of different outcomes. In ... Read full review
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Robust Yet Fragile | 25 |
sense scale swarm | 61 |
the Power of clusters | 93 |
the Resilient Mind | 118 |
cooperation When it counts | 144 |
cognitive Diversity | 191 |
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