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What is Resilience?

According to the definition that has been adopted
by the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities
Program, urban resilience is the capacity of indivi-
duals, communities, institutions, businesses, and
systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow
no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute
shocks they experience. For Salvador, building resi-
lience aims at preventing and overcoming the cost
of social-economic inequality by valuing its assets
for human and urban development in an integrated
and inclusive manner.

Shocks and stresses

Resilient systems support, respond to and adapt
more quickly to shocks and stresses. Resilient cities
come out stronger after navigating difficult times,
and more capable of living better in crisis-free mo-
ments.

Shocks are typically considered single event disas-
ters, such as earthquakes, and floods, epidemic ou-
tbreaks, while stresses are factors that pressure a
city on a daily or reoccurring basis and weaken the
urban fabric cyclically, such as unemployment, an
overtaxed or inefficient transportation system, en-
demic violence, chronic food and water shortages,
among others.

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