Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts
This paper explores two key concepts: resilience and complexity. The first is understood as an emergent property of the latter, and their inter-relatedness is discussed using a three tier approach. First, by exploring the discourse of each concept, next, by analyzing underlying relationships and, fi...
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| description | This paper explores two key concepts: resilience and complexity. The first is understood as an emergent property of the latter, and their inter-relatedness is discussed using a three tier approach. First, by exploring the discourse of each concept, next, by analyzing underlying relationships and, finally, by presenting the Cynefin Framework for Sense-Making as a tool of explicatory potential that has already shown its usefulness in several contexts. I further emphasize linking the two concepts into a common and, hopefully, useful concept. Furthermore, I argue that a resilient system is not merely robust. Robustness is a property of simple or complicated systems characterized by predictable behavior, enabling the system to bounce back to its normal state following a perturbation. Resilience, however, is an emergent property of complex adaptive systems. It is suggested that this distinction is important when designing and managing socio-technological and socio-economic systems with the ability to recover from sudden impact. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-787c044c31c243bf84c6cc9009acdc152022-12-22T03:56:30ZengLinköping University Electronic PressCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research2000-15252015-10-017354155710.3384/cu.2000.1525.1572541Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested ConceptsRasmus DahlbergThis paper explores two key concepts: resilience and complexity. The first is understood as an emergent property of the latter, and their inter-relatedness is discussed using a three tier approach. First, by exploring the discourse of each concept, next, by analyzing underlying relationships and, finally, by presenting the Cynefin Framework for Sense-Making as a tool of explicatory potential that has already shown its usefulness in several contexts. I further emphasize linking the two concepts into a common and, hopefully, useful concept. Furthermore, I argue that a resilient system is not merely robust. Robustness is a property of simple or complicated systems characterized by predictable behavior, enabling the system to bounce back to its normal state following a perturbation. Resilience, however, is an emergent property of complex adaptive systems. It is suggested that this distinction is important when designing and managing socio-technological and socio-economic systems with the ability to recover from sudden impact.http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1572541Resiliencerobustnesscomplexityemergency managementCynefin Framework. |
| spellingShingle | Rasmus Dahlberg Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research Resilience robustness complexity emergency management Cynefin Framework. |
| title | Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts |
| title_full | Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts |
| title_fullStr | Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts |
| title_short | Resilience and Complexity: Conjoining the Discourses of Two Contested Concepts |
| title_sort | resilience and complexity conjoining the discourses of two contested concepts |
| topic | Resilience robustness complexity emergency management Cynefin Framework. |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1572541 |
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