Open AccessBook Review: Resilience
Author(s) -
Patrick Baumann
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.58.3.7052
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , politics , plan (archaeology) , brace , psychological resilience , political science , political economy , development economics , environmental ethics , sociology , economics , psychology , engineering , history , social psychology , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , archaeology , thermodynamics
We are living in increasingly unpredictable, uncertain times. Continued disruptions in our world cause us to have to react and plan for unseen circumstances. This has always been true when you consider political, economic, technological, environmental, and social disruptions. However, as these disruptions become amplified, they have a greater effect on our communities and require greater efforts from all walks of society to brace for and recover from the damage they inflict.