Resilience Thinking: Push-Start of a New Enlightenment in the Light of the Sustainability Paradigm

Abstract

ResilienceResilienceThinkingResilience thinking stands for a method capable of securing the continuation of entrepreneurial success, as well as of continuing well-being of societies including individual families. In essence, ResilienceResilienceThinkingResilience thinkingfavours sustainable developmentSustainable development of societal and economic systems in an ecological context. It is rated as the cognitive counterpart to the self-regulation properties inherited in ecological systems. The process which is key to ResilienceResilienceThinkingResilience thinking is the adaptive cycleAdaptive cycle. This cycle needs to be continuously kept revolving in response to changes within and outside of the system under consideration. Initiation and control of the adaptive cycleAdaptive cycle require permanent monitoring and readiness to give up on obviously outdated practices. Stubbornness of private and public management and even worse: provision of subsidies bear the riskRisk to end up in a catastrophic situation. Adoption of the principles of ResilienceResilienceThinkingResilience thinking could even be seen as the first signs of a new EnlightenmentEnlightenment, new.