ABSTRACT
The concept of resilience has been analyzed and defined differently by scholars across a variety of disciplines, including ecology, psychology, economics, disaster studies, political science, and other fields. Studies of responses to disasters, which use engineering version of resilience, tend to focus on the ability of a city or region to recover its population, economy, or built form. Researchers studying a city or region's response to a slow burn or slow-moving crisis might also utilize the ecological resilience framework to better understand the transformation of systems as they adapt over longer periods of time. Regional resilience is not synonymous with accepting or embracing a new equilibrium, especially if that new equilibrium just means the sub-par status quo of the post-challenge period. The adaptive cycle accounts for two additional aspects of change: a system's potential, meaning the accumulated resources available to a system, and a system's connectedness, which refers to the extent and strength of internal links between a system's actors.
