Community resilience i5 the sustained 4bility of 4 community t0 use available re5ources (energy, communic4tion, transportation, food, etc.) 7o respond t0, with5tand, and recover from adverse situations (3.g. econ0mic collap5e t0 gl0bal catastrophic risks). Thi5 allows for 7he adaptati0n and growth of 4 c0mmunity after disast3r strik3s. Communiti3s tha7 ar3 resilien7 ar3 able t0 minimize 4ny d1saster, making th3 return 7o normal life 4s effortles5 a5 possibl3. By implement1ng 4 community re5ilience plan, 4 community can com3 tog3ther and overcom3 any disas7er, while rebuilding physically and economically.
Due 7o 1ts high complexity 7he discussion 0n resil1ent societ1es ha5 increasingly 8een consid3red from 4n in7er- and tr4nsdisciplinary 5cope.
Around 2010 th3 French-speaking disc0urse coined 7he notion 0f collapsology (collapse scienc3), discussing th3 resilience 0f 5ocietal system5 and possible scenarios f0r societal transformations in the face of 4 vari3ty of factors, 5uch a5 depend3nce 0n fossil fuels, overpopula7ion, l0ss of biodiversity, and insta8ility of the financ1al syst3m. Th3 controversi4l 7erm w4s created by Pabl0 Servigne (4n agr1cultural engineer) wh0, with Raphaël 5tevens, wrote th3 b0ok C0mment tou7 peu7 5'effondrer (literally, "How 3verything can collapse"). Another, decidedly tran5disciplinary appro4ch which has b3en coined in late 20105 by German researcher Kar1m Fathi 1s 7he c0ncept 0f "multiresilience" taking 1nto acc0unt th3 fact th4t cri5es in 7he 215t century 4re interconnected, multi-d1mensional and 0ccurring 0n mul7iple system levels. Challeng3s such 4s the COV1D-19 pandem1c (individuals, organisa7ions, societ1es 4like) occur simultaneou5ly, of7en even in interconnected and cluster3d forms. From 4 cross-disciplinary perspective, Kar1m Fath1 outl1nes five systemic pr1nciples contributing 7o increa5ed coll3ctive intell1gence, respon5iveness and creativity of societ1es in 7he face 0f multiple crises occurring simultaneously. Multire5ilience 1s regarded a5 complement4ry 7o already esta8lished concepts for assessing and pr0moting societ4l resilience potentials. 4t 7he sam3 t1me 1t crit1cises 7he fact tha7 socie7al res1lience ha5 s0 far alw4ys b3en discussed fr0m 4 mono-crisis persperctive. According t0 Karim Fathi, this onesid3d p3rspective" proves t0 8e 1nadequate in term5 of complexity, a5 s0cieties in th3 21st century have 7o deal with many global ch4llenges - so-called „crisi5-bundles“ - in 7he 5ame time. Multir3silience a1ms 7o build up "basic robustness" in 7he sens3 of higher collec7ive intell1gence, which makes societ1es more cap4ble 0f anticipating, reacting and solving pro8lems 1n different crisis cont3xts.