Resilient Society: Building a Sustainable and Adaptive Future
Resilient Society: Building a Sustainable and Adaptive Future
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In the age of globalisation, societies face multifarious interconnected challenges that require a comprehensive and proactive approach. The Resilient Society programme at Re-ACT Lab aims to contribute to the development of resilient societies that can positively cope with complex and uncertain environments and withstand versatile crises. By focusing on safety factors and building a healthy balance, we strive to foster sustainability, adaptability, and robustness in the face of challenges.
Areas of Focus
Areas of Focus
Key Features of Resilient Society
Key Features of Resilient Society
Advancing knowledge and information delivery on climate change, enabling societies to respond effectively and develop strategies for mitigating its impacts.
Leveraging technology-oriented solutions, such as e-governance, e-education, and e-health, to enhance policymaking processes, improve service delivery, and foster digital inclusion.
Addressing migration and employability challenges by promoting strategies that facilitate smooth integration, enhance employability, and create opportunities for migrants and host communities.
Championing gender-sensitive policies that promote gender equality, empower women, and ensure their inclusion in decision-making processes and development initiatives.
Diversity and Redundancy: By embracing diversity, a system gains a wide range of responses to disturbances, reducing the likelihood of failure across all components simultaneously.
Modularity: Modular systems, with self-sufficient units that retain functionality even when disconnected from larger networks, fare better during crises.
Reserves: Healthy resource reserves provide the necessary cushion for any system to weather disturbances and recover effectively.
Social Capital: Resilience is reinforced by strong "social capital." This includes nurturing relationships, trust, social networks, and effective leadership at both individual and community levels.
Agency: Individual and social resilience thrive when there is a sense of control over destiny. Resilient people make choices and enact them, while resilient communities engage citizens in decision-making processes.
Inclusiveness: Inclusive social institutions—economic, political, and cultural—strengthen resilience at every level by ensuring equal opportunities and representation for all members of society.
Tight Feedback: A resilient system incorporates tight feedback loops, enabling it to swiftly detect changes in its constituent parts and respond appropriately.
Innovation: Resilient systems generate novel responses to changing conditions. For human societies, innovation is the key, requiring the ability and willingness to embrace new approaches.
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