The symposium, the first of its kind, was an ambitious attempt to create an international forum that brings together thought leaders from around the world to examine the powerful concept of resilience as it applies to homeland security and defense. This effort presented the enormously complex and diverse nature of resilience as the basis for improving societal abilities to respond to and recover from disruptive events. Collectively, the proceedings show a small sample of the many research projects in the resilience domain that reflect individual findings and connectivity with international partners in research and thinking.

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Contents

Part I

The Philosophy of Resilience

Brigadier General Meir Elran (Ret.)

Is the Blame Game Making Us Less Resilient? A Reexamination of Blame Allocation in Systems with High Uncertainty

 Dr. P.H. Longstaff

Measuring Societal Resilience

 Brigadier General Meir Elran (Ret.)

Multiple Dimensions of Resilience: Directions for Future Research

 Dr. Alka Sapat

Part 2

Ecological and Biological Perspectives of Resilience

Dr. Curt J. Mann

Indicator of Ecological Resilience: Building and Sustaining Resilient Communities

Dr. John Pine

Developing Bio-Event Resilient Communities and Societies: A Holistic Systematic Approach

Dr. Paula Scalingi

Ecological Resilience for an Increasingly Surprising World

Dr. Lance Gunderson

Part 3

Social, Organizational, and Cultural Perspectives of Resilience

Alex McLellan

Bases for a Community Resilience System

Dr. John Plodinec

Being Vulnerable in a Resilient Community

Ms. Corrine Bara

Organizations—Their Role in Building Societal Resilience

Ms. Rita Parker

Societal Resilience—Looking Ahead

Brigadier General Meir Elran (Ret.)

Appendices

Symposium 2010 Program

Overview Report