Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Commentary
  • Published:

Changing the resilience paradigm

Nature Climate Change volume 4, pages 407–409 (2014)Cite this article

Subjects

Resilience management goes beyond risk management to address the complexities of large integrated systems and the uncertainty of future threats, especially those associated with climate change.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: A resilience management framework includes risk analysis as a central component.
Figure 2: Schematic representations of changes in critical functionality over time show the interplay of risk and resilience in a system's performance during an adverse event.

References

  1. IPCC Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (eds Field, C. B. et al.) 582 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).

  2. Levermann, A. Nature 506, 27–29 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Linkov, I. et al. Env. Sci. Tech. 47, 10108–10110 (2014).

    Google Scholar 

  4. National Research Council Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative (The National Academies Press, 2012).

  5. Park, J., Seager, T. P., Rao, P. C. S., Convertino, M. & Linkov, I. Risk Analysis 33, 356–367 (2013).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Linkov, I. et al. Environ. Syst. Decisions 33, 471–476 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Roege, P. et al. Energy Policy (in the press).

  8. Dauphiné, A. & Provitolo. D. Annales de Géographie 654, 115–125 (2007).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Lambert, J. H., Tsang, J. & Thekdi, S. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng. J. Infrastr. Syst. 19, 384–394 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Bridges, T. et al. Coastal risk reduction and resilience (US Army Corps of Engineers, 2013).

    Google Scholar 

  11. Hollnagel, E. & Fujita, Y. Nuc. Eng. Tech. 45, 1–8 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. World Commission on Environment and Development Our common future (Oxford Univ. Press, 1987).

Download references

Acknowledgements

This paper resulted from discussions at a workshop on the use of risk and resilience assessment methodologies in guiding policy development, held at the Embassy of Canada in Berlin, Germany on 4 February 2014. Partial financial support for the workshop was provided by grant W911NF-13-1-0168 to RNC Conseil, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Additional funding was provided by the German National Academy of Technology and Engineering (Acatech), the Helmholtz Association, the Embassy of Canada and the Society for Risk Analysis. Permission was granted by the USACE Chief of Engineers to publish this material. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the individual authors and not those of the US Army or other sponsor organizations.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. United States Army Corps of Engineers — Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, 01742, Massachusetts, USA

    Igor Linkov & Cate Fox-Lent

  2. United States Army Corps of Engineers — Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, 39180, Massachusetts, USA

    Todd Bridges

  3. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Torgauer Straße 12–15, 10829, Berlin, Germany

    Felix Creutzig

  4. Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, Berlin, 10117, Germany

    Jennifer Decker

  5. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), Scheuchzerstrasse 7, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland

    Wolfgang Kröger

  6. University of Virginia, 151 Engineer's Way, Charlottesville, 22903, Virginia, USA

    James H. Lambert

  7. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A 31, Potsdam, 14191, Germany

    Anders Levermann

  8. Université Laval, 2325 Rue de l'Université, G1V 0A6, Québec, Canada

    Benoit Montreuil

  9. University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada

    Jatin Nathwani

  10. RNC Conseil and Ecole Centrale de Paris, 56 Rue Charles Laffitte, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 92200, France

    Raymond Nyer

  11. University of Stuttgart, Seidenstraße 36, Stuttgart, 70174, Germany

    Ortwin Renn

  12. Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Eckerstraße 4, Freiburg, 79104, Germany

    Benjamin Scharte

  13. Hamburg University of Technology, Kasernenstraße 12, Hamburg, 21073, Germany

    Alexander Scheffler

  14. Free University of Berlin, Ihnestraße 22, Berlin, 14195, Germany

    Miranda Schreurs

  15. Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Lohbrügger Kirchstrasse 65, Hamburg, 21033, Germany

    Thomas Thiel-Clemen

Authors
  1. Igor Linkov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Todd Bridges
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Felix Creutzig
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Jennifer Decker
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Cate Fox-Lent
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Wolfgang Kröger
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. James H. Lambert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Anders Levermann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. Benoit Montreuil
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. Jatin Nathwani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  11. Raymond Nyer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  12. Ortwin Renn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  13. Benjamin Scharte
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  14. Alexander Scheffler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  15. Miranda Schreurs
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  16. Thomas Thiel-Clemen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Igor Linkov.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Linkov, I., Bridges, T., Creutzig, F. et al. Changing the resilience paradigm. Nature Clim Change 4, 407–409 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2227

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2227

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing