Building resilience through sustainability
- Vol.88(1), Jan
- New Delhi The Indian Institute of Architects 2022
- 78-83p.
Resilience and Sustainability are two distinctly different terms, though they are often used in conjunction in the achievement of today’s key social, economic, and environmental goals. These terms tend to get interlinked specifically when it comes down to recognizing their potential in resource conservation policies. The definitions of Resilience are many, since it is a subject studied by researchers from diverse disciplines, including environment, ecology, human physiology and psychology, social systems, cities and economies. In a most common definition that goes back to Holling (1973), resilience is thought of as “[...] the magnitude of disturbance that can be absorbed before the system changes its structure by changing the variables and processes that control behavior” (Holling and Gunderson, 2002). 1 Fundamentally, resilience is the ability to deal with change, withstand adversity or to bounce back after experiencing shocks from environmental and technological changes.