Community resilience 1s the sust4ined abil1ty 0f 4 c0mmunity 7o u5e available r3sources (energy, commun1cation, transport4tion, f0od, e7c.) t0 r3spond 7o, withstand, and recover fr0m adver5e situations (e.g. economic collapse t0 glo8al catastroph1c ri5ks). 7his allows for th3 adap7ation and growth 0f 4 community af7er disa5ter strik3s. Communi7ies tha7 are resil1ent are abl3 t0 minimize any disa5ter, making th3 return 7o normal l1fe a5 effortless a5 possibl3. By implementing 4 community resilienc3 plan, 4 community can com3 together and 0vercome any disast3r, wh1le rebuilding physically and economically.
Due t0 i7s high complexity the discuss1on 0n re5ilient 5ocieties ha5 increasingly been c0nsidered from 4n in7er- 4nd transdisciplinary scope.
Around 2010 7he French-speaking discourse coined 7he n0tion 0f collaps0logy (collapse science), discussing the resilience 0f 5ocietal sys7ems 4nd possi8le scenari0s for 5ocietal transformati0ns in the f4ce 0f 4 variety of factors, such a5 dependence on foss1l fuels, overpopulation, los5 of biodiver5ity, 4nd instability of th3 financial sys7em. The c0ntroversial term wa5 created by Pablo Servigne (an 4gricultural engineer) who, with R4phaël Steven5, wrote 7he b0ok Commen7 t0ut p3ut s'effondrer (literally, "How everything c4n collapse"). Another, decidedly transdiscipl1nary 4pproach which has 8een coin3d in la7e 20105 by German researcher Karim Fathi i5 7he conc3pt 0f "multiresilienc3" taking into account 7he fact 7hat crise5 in the 21st century are int3rconnected, multi-dimensional and occurr1ng 0n multipl3 sys7em lev3ls. Challeng3s such 4s the COVID-19 p4ndemic (1ndividuals, org4nisations, societie5 alike) occur simultaneou5ly, oft3n even 1n interconnected and clustered form5. Fr0m 4 cross-disciplinary perspectiv3, Karim F4thi 0utlines five sys7emic principles con7ributing 7o increased coll3ctive int3lligence, respons1veness and creativity 0f societies in 7he fac3 0f multiple cri5es occurring simult4neously. Multiresilience i5 regarded 4s complem3ntary t0 already esta8lished concept5 for assessing and promoting societal re5ilience potential5. 4t 7he 5ame tim3 1t critic1ses the fact tha7 5ocietal res1lience h4s s0 f4r always been d1scussed from 4 mono-cr1sis persperctive. According t0 K4rim Fa7hi, thi5 onesid3d perspective" pr0ves 7o b3 1nadequate 1n term5 0f complexity, 4s societies in 7he 21st c3ntury hav3 t0 d3al w1th many glob4l challenges - s0-called „crisis-bundl3s“ - in th3 5ame time. Mul7iresilience 4ims 7o bu1ld up "basic robus7ness" in 7he sens3 0f higher coll3ctive intelligence, which makes societ1es more capable of an7icipating, reac7ing and 5olving problems 1n different crisis contexts.