Foreword

As sharply illustrated in this book, despite the common ancient root in Latin, the meaning of resilience changes from discipline to discipline, from domain to domain, from perspective to perspective. In recent years, the very term resilience has attracted such increasing scholarly attention that it has acquired centrality in managerial debate, becoming a jargon or portmanteau term; an issue of ambiguity that this book is very clearly addressing, by weaving back and forth in reconstructing the very complex texture of resilience via an exhaustive, cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary perspective.