The Resilience Dividend Quotes

“WHAT IS RESILIENCE? Resilience is the capacity of any entity—an individual, a community, an organization, or a natural system—to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience.”
― Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

“building is just one element of a community, and a community is just one element of a city. Da Silva now pushes engineers not just to think of design and engineering in terms of the physical but to consider the “human outcomes of what they’re doing.”
― Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

“In the twenty-first century, building resilience is one of our most urgent social and economic issues because we live in a world that is defined by disruption. Not a month goes by that we don’t see some kind of disturbance to the normal flow of life”
― Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

“That is the resilience dividend. It means more than effectively returning to normal functioning after a disruption, although that is critical. It is about achieving significant transformation that yields benefits even when disruptions are not”
― Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

“You also develop greater capacity to bounce back from a crisis, learn from it, and achieve revitalization. Ideally, as you become more adept at managing disruption and skilled at resilience”
― Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

“community, an organization, or a natural system—to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience. As you build resilience, therefore, you become more able to prevent or mitigate stresses and shocks you can identify”
― Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong