Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

By Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Science & Math

Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy explore why some systems, communities and people recover from disruption while others collapse. Drawing on ecology, engineering, psychology and sociology, they look at examples from coral reefs and financial markets to the internet and disaster-struck communities. The authors explain the principles that make systems resilient, such as diversity, modularity, cooperation and adaptive leadership, and how these can be built into organizations and cities.

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