Resilience: Approaches to risk analysis and governance

This paper serves as a general introduction to the concept and application of resilience, specifically as it relates to traditional risk management, and in particular about suggestions for metrics or indicators that can be developed to assess resilience in a system and the performance of resilience strategies against hazardous events.

This paper includes:

• a comparison of risk and resilience management strategies;
• a description of common features within resilience analysis and thinking;
• a discussion of the benefits that resilience management brings to the field of risk management.

Resource Guide on Resilience. Lausanne: EPFL International Risk Governance Center, 2016.