Societal Resilience
Societal Resilience examines societal resilience within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and recover from
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Future Resilience
Societal Resilience can materially affect human agency, capability, belonging, livelihoods, culture, trust, resilience and long-term societal outcomes.
8 canonical Subtopics in this Topic.
Technological Resilience
Technological Resilience examines technological resilience within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and re
Institutional Resilience
Institutional Resilience examines institutional resilience within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and re
Infrastructure Resilience
Infrastructure Resilience examines infrastructure resilience within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and
Psychological Resilience
Psychological Resilience examines psychological resilience within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and re
Adaptive Capacity
Adaptive Capacity examines adaptive capacity within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and recover from sys
Resilience Measurement
Resilience Measurement examines resilience measurement within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt to and recove
Recovery from Systemic Shock
Recovery from Systemic Shock examines recovery from systemic shock within the broader domain of capacity of societies, institutions, infrastructure and people to withstand, adapt t
Stories from Future Resilience
Scenario narratives — not empirical findings.
Societal Resilience
The first evacuation happened on a cloudless Saturday. It was a simulation. Schools, aged-care homes, farmers, volunteers and emergency services tested how information, transport and care would hold together when the usu
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At 09:17, the dashboards stopped updating. Warehouses could still move goods, but routing, documentation and customer communication depended on services no single operator controlled. Recovery exposed which capabilities
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Nobody remembered the first forty-six minutes of the meeting. Everyone remembered the question asked in minute forty-seven: ‘What evidence would change our mind?’ The organisation had thousands of reports but almost no a
Read the full story →Infrastructure Resilience
“It works,” one person said. “For whom, for how long, and compared with what?” Ama replied. Emerging AI, institutional and societal change creates a material need to understand and govern infrastructure resilience.
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The nearest specialist was four hours away, so the community had become expert at making imperfect systems work. Emerging AI, institutional and societal change creates a material need to understand and govern psychologic
Read the full story →Adaptive Capacity
Keiko finished the task faster than anyone in the room and could not explain how the answer had been reached. Emerging AI, institutional and societal change creates a material need to understand and govern adaptive capac
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The family called it “the second shift”: the hours spent reconciling what different services believed about the same person. Emerging AI, institutional and societal change creates a material need to understand and govern
Read the full story →Recovery from Systemic Shock
The exercise began with a simulated outage and became a test of whether people could still coordinate when the dashboards disappeared. Emerging AI, institutional and societal change creates a material need to understand
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