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System resilience
ConceptResilience is the capacity to keep or regain essential function after disturbance.
Explanation or usage
A resilient system has response pathways that can absorb changes or restore important functions. Redundancy, varied responses and feedback can support this capacity, sometimes at a cost to maximum short-term efficiency. Resilience differs from being unchanging or invulnerable.
Common misunderstandings
A resilient system never changes or experiences disruption.
In Thinking in systems
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This concept distinguishes continued function under disturbance from a perfectly fixed state.