“Is Resilience Useful, Usable, and Used? Outlining the Social Characteristics of a Resilient System”

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the international priority to systemically operationalise resilience in face of increasing prevalence complex and cascading hazards. This concept paper identifies components a resilient society, establishing usefulness usability application ‘resilience’, proposes characteristics used by system. Method: Through review case-based examples previously published papers, this underwent analysis understand qualify community. extensive research critical disaster risk responses both effective not, authors condensed literature identify key society. Results: To respond evolving landscape risk, community governmental should be collaborative order successful sustainable increase across communities, societies networks. unpick complexity how communities governments might promote effectively, we explore whether social capital are useful resources create sustain approaches reduction management. We consider that exploring links, bridges bonds actors within system qualitative facets A is product trust collaboration between asset-based networks bonded bridged support-based organizations. Conclusion: By evaluating concept, an iterative learning process, asset based, trusting power resource gradients best built before or even if essential during crisis. Noting dynamic process which requires integrated continual adjustment develop framework, useful, useable used.