Resilience: Theory and Applications

IFRC roadmap for operationalizing community resilience through risk reduction, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness. Includes step-by-step assessments and field-tested intervention models.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Centre for Liveable Cities playbook on measuring and strengthening community resilience through social capital and citizen-led projects. Draws on case studies and provides a co-creation framework.

Centre for Liveable Cities

PhD thesis from the University of Canterbury that develops a grounded-theory model of resilience based on interviews with adults facing chronic adversity. Useful for graduate students and researchers exploring resilience as a lived process.

Ali Maginness

University of Bremen working paper that traces the historical roots of the resilience concept from ecology and engineering to its current uses in critical infrastructure design. Best for readers interested in the multidisciplinary genealogy of the term.

Stefan Gößling-Reisemann, Hans Dieter Hellige, Pablo Thier

Chapter from the Handbook of Well-Being that maps how resilience has been defined and measured, with emphasis on its relationship with psychological well-being. Differentiates resilience from hardiness, grit, and psychological capital.

P.D. Harms, Lisa Brady, Dustin Wood