Blog - Category: Resilience

Connectivity or coupling: keep Goldilocks in mind (Building resilience: Principle 2)

My mother always said that nothing with a "too" in front of it is good.  That is certainly true about connectivity, too little and too much can be equally detrimental.  High levels of connectivity can facilitate the fast recovery of a system after a disruption, but at the same time some disruptions spread faster in highly […]
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Maintain diversity and redundancy (Building resilience: Principle 1)

"Systems with many different components (e.g. species, actors, or sources of knowledge) are generally more resilient than systems with few components.  Redundancy provides 'insurance' within a system by allowing some components to compensate for the loss or failure of others.  Redundancy is even more valuable if the components providing the redundancy also react differently to […]
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