Resilience, resilient, resiliency, or ''variation'', may refer to:

Science

Ecology

Ecological resilience In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly. Such perturbations and disturbances can include stochastic events such as fires, flooding, windstorm ...

, the capacity of an ecosystem to recover from perturbations **

Climate resilience Climate resilience is defined as the "capacity of social, economic and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance".IPCC, 2022Summary for Policymakers .-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, M. Tignor, ...

, the ability of systems to recover from climate change ** Soil resilience, the ability of a soil to maintain a healthy state in response to destabilising influences

Social sciences

* Resilience in art, the property of artwork to remain relevant over changing times *

Resilience (organizational) Business continuity may be defined as "the capability of an organization to continue the delivery of products or services at pre-defined acceptable levels following a disruptive incident", and business continuity planning (or business continuity a ...

, the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function *

Psychological resilience Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally or emotionally with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. The term was coined in the 1970s by a psychologist named Emmy E. Werner as she conducted a forty year long study o ...

, an individual's ability to adapt in the face of adverse conditions * Supply chain resilience, the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change *

Urban resilience Urban resilience has conventionally been defined as the "measurable ability of any urban system, with its inhabitants, to maintain continuity through all shocks and stresses, while positively adapting and transforming towards sustainability". Ther ...

, the adaptive capacities of complex urban systems to manage change, order and disorder over time *

Community resilience Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to use available resources (energy, communication, transportation, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (e.g. economic collapse to global catastrophic ...

, the adaptive capacities of communities and societies to manage change and adversities over time

Technology and engineering

Resilience (engineering and construction) In the fields of engineering and construction, resilience is the ability to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure and is an objective of design, maintenance and restoration for buildings and infrastructure, as well as communiti ...

, the ability of buildings and infrastructure to absorb assaults without suffering complete failure *

Resilience (materials science) In material science, resilience is the ability of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically, and release that energy upon unloading. Proof resilience is defined as the maximum energy that can be absorbed up to the elastic li ...

, the ability of a material to absorb energy when deformed, and release that energy upon unloading * Resilience (network), the ability of a computer network to maintain service in the face of faults * Resilience (internet), the ability of internet infrastructure to be resilient in the face of extreme weather, power outages and terror attacks. * Resilience in the built environment * Cyber resilience, in information security * Resilient control systems, the engendering of cognitive, cyber-physical threat resilience into control systems * a concept in energy development

Entertainment and media

* ''Resilience'' (film) (2006) * ''Resilience'' (play) (2009) * ''Resilience'' (sculpture), a sculpture in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Literature

* ''Resilience'' (Greitens book), "Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life", a 2015 book by Eric Greitens * ''Resilience'' (2018), seventh book in Fletcher DeLancey's

Chronicles of Alsea The Chronicles of Alsea is a science fiction book series by Fletcher DeLancey, consisting of ten novels: ''The Caphenon'' (2015), ''Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge'' (2015), ''Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge'' (2015), ''Cata ...

series * '' Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness'', a memoir by Jessie Close with Pete Earley * ''Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities'', a 2009 book by

Elizabeth Edwards Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democrati ...

* ''Resilient'' (book), 2016 autobiography by Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson

Music

Songs

* "Resilient" (2013), by Running Wild, off the eponymous album ''Resilient'' (album) * "Resilient" (2020), by Katy Perry, off the album ''Smile'' (Katy Perry album) * "Resilience" (2008), by Annabelle Chvostek, off the eponymous album ''Resilience'' (Annabelle Chvostek album)

Albums

* ''Resilient'' (Dope Saint Jude album) (2018) by Dope Saint Jude * ''Resilient'' (album) (2013) by Running Wild * '' The Resilient'' (2017), album by Betraying the Martyrs * ''Resilience'' (Annabelle Chvostek album) (2008) * ''Resilience'' (Drowning Pool album) (2013) * ''Resilience'' (Kid606 album) (2005)

Other uses

* Crew Dragon ''Resilience'', a SpaceX Dragon 2 space capsule, ''C207'', first used for the second crewed Dragon flight, NASA SpaceX ''Crew-1'', first full-up crew mission to the ISS on the platform *

Resilience NSW Resilience NSW was a Government of New South Wales executive agency within the Department of Premier and Cabinet, focused on disaster management and was responsible for disaster recovery and building community resilience to future disasters. It ...

, a government agency of the New South Wales government in Australia * Resilience.org, a pro-environment website owned by the think tank Post Carbon Institute * UK Resilience, a government agency of the United Kingdom