The Resilience Concept: From its historical roots to theoretical framework for critical infrastructure design

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

Argonne National Laboratory technical report that synthesizes definitions, properties, and measurement approaches for resilience across infrastructure, ecological, and social systems. Strong reference for theory-driven readers.

L. Carlson, G. Bassett, W. Buehring

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