The book, deliberately written in generally understandable language for all interested readers, paints a unique, transdisciplinary overall picture of resilience as a national and international social factor of our time. It shows that in terms of socio-political significance, the concept of resilience is in no way inferior to the older, hitherto dominant concepts of sustainability and development; indeed, it actively complements them, in some cases contradicts them, but also completes them. Resilience as a societal factor involves all sectors, such as politics, the economy, science and civil society, and thus represents an indispensable frame of reference in the overarching recent debate on the "learning society".
"Fathi analyzes the still little-tapped topic of "societal resilience" from entirely new perspectives and with a stimulating thematic breadth. A must-read for anyone who wants to grasp this topic holistically." Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind
Author(s): Karim Fathi
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgements
About This Book
Contents
Abbreviations
Part I: The Multi-resilient Society
1: Framework: Most Likely and Threatening Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
1.1 Most Likely and Most Dangerous Risks and Crisis Potentials
1.1.1 Most Likely Risks
1.1.2 Most Impactful Risks and Existential Risks
1.2 Environmental Hazards at the Centre of Attention
1.3 The Coronavirus Crisis: Crisis Bundle and Bundled Crisis
2: Resilience: A Universal Answer to the Crises of Our Time?
2.1 Different Definitions and Uses of the Term Resilience
2.2 Hard and Soft Dimensions of the Resilient Society
2.2.1 Hard Factors: The Prevailing Discourse on the Resilient Society
2.2.2 Soft Factors: The Neglected Component in the Resilience Discourse
2.3 Can the Resilience of a Society Be Measured?
2.4 Two Practical Approaches for a Resilient Society
2.4.1 Crisis Management
2.4.2 Crisis Transformation
2.5 Conclusion
3: Excursus: Two Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Resilience Model
3.1 Multi-, Inter-, Transdisciplinarity: What Is It?
3.2 Two Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Resilient Society
3.2.1 Simplify
3.2.1.1 The Panarchy Model of Adaptive Systems
3.2.1.2 The Cybernetic Model of Viable Systems
3.2.2 Complexify
3.3 Conclusion
4: Five Principles of a Multi-resilient Society
4.1 General Principles for a Multi-resilient Society
4.1.1 Principle 1: The Multi-resilient Society Is Fostered by Resilient Citizens
4.1.2 Principle 2: The Multi-resilient Society Is Comfortable with Unknowns
4.1.3 Principle 3: The Multi-resilient Society Is Based on a Fine Balance of Decoupling and Knowledge Integration of Its Subsystems
4.1.4 Principle 4: The Multi-resilient Society Makes Collectively Intelligent Decisions
4.1.5 Principle 5: The Multi-resilient Society Has a Strong Learning Culture
4.2 Conclusion
Part II: Future Preparedness in the Twenty-First Century: Development, Sustainability, Resilience
5: The Developed Society
5.1 The Inner and Outer Context of Societal Development
5.2 The Developed Society in the Light of Four Discourses
5.2.1 Contributions from Development Studies and Modernity Research: Development and Modernity as an International Orientation Framework for Social Development
5.2.2 The Threshold to Post-industrial Development Using the Example of the Smart City Debate
5.2.3 Developmental Psychology Discourse
5.2.4 Contributions from Happiness Research: Criteria of a ‘Happy Society’ and Social Conflict Potentials
5.3 Measurement Criteria and Principles of the Developed Society
5.3.1 Measurement Criteria
5.3.2 Principles
5.4 Conclusion
6: The Sustainable Society
6.1 Key Dimensions of the Sustainable Society in the Current Discourse
6.2 Ethical-Religious Influences on the Concept of Sustainability
6.3 Measurement Criteria and Principles of Societal Sustainability
6.3.1 Measurement Criteria
6.3.2 Principles
6.4 Three Concepts in the Growth-Critical Discourse
6.4.1 Concept 1: Green Growth
6.4.2 Concept 2: Post-social Market Economy
6.4.3 Concept 3: Post-growth Economy
6.5 Conclusion
7: Development Versus Sustainability Versus Resilience: Commonalities, Intersections and Contradictions
7.1 Main Features of the Three Main Concepts
7.2 General Commonalities, Complementarities and Contradictions Between the Three Main Concepts
7.2.1 Development Versus Sustainability
7.2.2 Resilience Versus Development
7.2.3 Resilience Versus Sustainability
7.2.4 Mutual Contradictions Between All Three Guiding Concepts, Using the Superpower USA as a Particular Example
7.3 The Development Paradox
Part III: What Does Societal Future Preparedness Mean in the Twenty-First Century? An Outlook
8: Future Preparedness in the Twenty-First Century: Contours of an Integrative Concept
8.1 Criteria and Principles for Societal Future Preparedness – An Overview
8.2 Principle 6: Securing (Basic) Needs and Preventing Potential Social Conflict
8.2.1 Overview of Welfare Regimes
8.2.2 Conflict Potentials of Welfare Regimes
8.2.3 Universal Basic Income: A Suitable Approach for a Sustainable Welfare Concept?
8.3 Principle 7: Development and Preservation
8.3.1 High Hopes for High-Tech and Low-Tech Applications
8.3.2 Possible Development Trends
8.3.3 Political Integration of Multiple Concepts: The Panarchism Discourse
8.4 Principle 8: Collective Wisdom
8.4.1 Wisdom: Characteristics and Approaches
8.4.2 Collective Wisdom to Guide Development Paths
8.4.3 Wise Decisions in the Global Prisoner’s Dilemma
9: Outlook: Five Leverage Points to Trigger Social Change
9.1 Five Leverage Points for Social Change
9.1.1 Leverage Point 1: Work on Yourself
9.1.2 Leverage Point 2: Using Critical Mass to Drive Change Bottom-Up
9.1.3 Leverage Point 3: Experimental Prototype Projects
9.1.4 Leverage Point 4: Building Bridges Between Society Sectors
9.1.5 Leverage Point 5: Methods of Communicative Complexity Management
9.2 Conclusion and Summarising Theses
9.2.1 Summary
9.2.2 Five Milestones for the Further Political Practice
9.2.2.1 Milestone 1: Fostering Integrative Political Practice by Adequately Considering Multi-Resilience, Sustainability and Development as Orienting Dimensions for the Political Agenda
9.2.2.2 Milestone 2: Fostering Collective Intelligence and Collective Wisdom through Cross-Sectoral and Cross-Disciplinary Networking and Knowledge Distribution
9.2.2.3 Milestone 3: Strengthening Collective Problem-Anticipation, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making by Improving the Quality of Communication
9.2.2.4 Milestone 4: Fostering International and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation
9.2.2.5 Milestone 5: Fostering Real Multi-Lateralism and Global Governance
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