Short presentation for Toastmasters. Describes and defines the concept of resilience, looks at some case studies, and also discusses social networks, cascading failure and the vulnerability of Wellington's infrastructure

1. Phil Howison S8 Resilience

2. What is resilience? General: The ability to recover from a shock.

3. What is resilience? Networks: The ability to provide an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges to normal operation.

4. What is resilience? Ecology: The rate at which a system returns to a single steady or cyclic state following a system perturbation.

5. What is resilience? Psychology: The capacity of people to cope with stress or catastrophe.

6. What is resilience? The resilience of a society encompasses all that and more.

7. Hurricane Jeanne Fatalities United States: 5 Puerto Rico: 7 Dominican Republic: 18 Haiti: 3006+

8. Hurricane Katrina 1836+ killed 700+ still missing $81.2 billion damage

12. Cascading failure

13. Networks vs. Hierarchy

14. What went right?

16. Wellington's infrastructure

17. Wellington's infrastructure

18. Wellington's infrastructure

19. Wellington's infrastructure

20. Resilience and sustainability

21. Resilience Rapid change makes resilience even more important. It isn't just about being prepared, its about being flexible and adaptable enough to cope with change of any kind.