Separation of Lanthanides/ Lanthanides and Actinides
Understanding resilience and coping with a world of shocks
1. What is Resilience?
The ability to [not just] return to a
previous state [but] adapt and learn to live
with changes and uncertainty (Béné 2013)
The ability of systems to absorb changes of
state variables, driving variables, and
parameters, and still persist (Holling 1973)
The ability of people, households,
communities, countries, and systems to
mitigate, adapt to, and recover from
shocks and stresses in a manner that
reduces chronic vulnerability and
facilitates inclusive growth (USAID 2012)
The ability of a joint social and
ecological system to
withstand shocks [as well as]
learn from them and evolve in
response to changing
conditions (Oxfam 2009)
The capacity of a system to
absorb disturbance and
reorganize [and still retain]
the same function, structure,
identity, and feedbacks
(Resilience Alliance 2002)
2. What is Resilience?
Building resilience means helping
people, communities, countries, and
global institutions prevent, anticipate,
prepare for, cope with, and recover
from shocks and not only bounce back
to where they were before the shocks
occurred, but become even better-off.
IFPRI 2020 Consultation definition
4. Why Do Shocks Matter?
1. Shocks affect food security. The 2008 food crisis may
have caused 63 million more people to become
malnourished.
2. Shocks affect nutrition. Climate change may cause child
malnourishment rates to increase by 18 percent in low-
income countries by 2050. The developmental effects of
poor childhood nutrition persist into adulthood.
3. Shocks affect livelihoods. The 2010 drought in Russia
destroyed more than 30 percent of the agricultural area in
affected regions.
4. Shocks affect national economic growth. Civil war costs
countries 2-3 percent of GDP; it can take countries up to
14 years to return to their original levels of growth.