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Resilience

Meaning in environment & climate, with examples

/rɪˈzɪliəns/nounCommon term

In environment & climate, resilience means: The ability of a community, city, business or ecosystem to prepare for, cope with and recover quickly from shocks such as floods, heatwaves or droughts.

In Turkish: dayanıklılık, dirençlilik

How it is used

Very common in adaptation and risk work: climate resilience, build resilience, resilient infrastructure, community resilience. The adjective is resilient. It is often followed by 'to': resilience to floods.

Example sentences

  1. The new drainage system will improve the district's resilience to flash floods.

  2. Diversifying suppliers has increased our resilience to climate shocks.

Common collocations

  • climate resilience
  • build resilience
  • resilience to floods
  • resilient infrastructure
  • community resilience
  • adaptationChanges in how people, cities, businesses and ecosystems work so that they can cope with the current and expected effects of climate change.
  • climate riskThe possibility that climate change, or the policies and market changes it brings, will cause financial losses or other harm to a company, investor, community or asset.
  • extreme weatherWeather that is much more severe than usual for a place and time of year, such as heatwaves, very heavy rain, floods, droughts and strong storms.
  • nature-based solutionsActions that protect, restore or sustainably manage ecosystems to tackle problems such as climate change, flooding or water shortages, while also benefiting people and biodiversity.

This word in other fields

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