ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part discusses resilience in certain isolation and explores how, just like risk, it only exists in a dense cloud of definition challenges. The object of the exercise going forward is to become far more explicit about the dependency that this core concept of resilience has on the concept of risk. All resilience forms that the authors can observe are predicated on a risk construct, however poorly defined this may be. The part provides a greater reliance on an evidence-based approach for the marriage of risk and resilience as dependent constructs and examines the potential contribution of theories of human reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. It explores the question of how risk measurement can inform resilience measurement.
