Challenges to measure resilience Sample Clauses

Challenges to measure resilience. Key messages: Developing resilience indicators is a difficult task because it must address the typical challenges of assessment (to be feasible, informative, cost-effective etc.) and at the same time deal with the very complex nature of resilience. The literature is so divergent and confusing that the notion of measuring resilience itself has been contested. In practice, different indicators have been proposed to assess proxy properties of resilience. They basically fall into two categories: 5 To our knowledge, the longest time horizon comes from the REA which uses UK climate projections up to 2100 (RAEng, 2011). Persistence, resistance, robustness can be assessed with outcome-based indicators which measure the effectiveness of action and policy. Adaptability, responsiveness, ability to recover can be assessed with process-based indicators which monitor progress in implementation.
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