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Creating Resilience, Minimizing Vulnerability of Communities

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Resilience:

A resilient system is characterized by including a community of humans (or other living beings), who provide the ability and capacity for necessary self-organization and adaption. Resilience is the active ability of a system, to cope with the unexpected, especially with disruptive challenges through adaption. Here adaption is a conscious and active process involving reorganization, not an automatic response.

Impact or disruptive challenge:

An impact or disruptive challenge is characterized by the combination of being an unexpected event affecting a system and having the potential to harm or destroy this system.

Vulnerability:

Vulnerability defines the degree to which a system is susceptible to adverse effects and unable to cope with them. This includes solely technical systems (machines) as well as humans or communities.

Robustness:

The degree to which a system can sustain an impact without being changed substantially or irreversibly is its robustness. Impacts...

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  1. Fachbereich Maschinenbau und Kunststofftechnik, Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Sven Linow

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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Linow, S. (2020). Creating Resilience, Minimizing Vulnerability of Communities. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_96-1

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