Resilience constructions: How to make the differences between theoretical concepts visible?

Abstract

The concept of resilience has performed an amazing career. Starting out in some selected disciplines, such as psychology and ecology, it has been applied in a vast variety of disciplines including natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Resilience deals with the characteristics of individuals, units-more abstractly: entities-that enable them to not only maintain their identity in face of unusual or critical situations, but to potentially even emerge strengthened from such stressful situations.