The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience

COVID-19 has highlighted the need for a multi-dimensional resilience approach that goes beyond traditional concepts of social resilience focused on a single crisis. The book proposes pillars for a more multi-resilient Post-Corona world and offers socio-political recommendations for achieving it. Multi-resilience involves enhancing universal resilience competencies to apply to multi-dimensional crisis contexts, making it essential for future preparedness in the 21st century.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 458 pages
Publication date: 23 March 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books

COVID-19 has brought about a multifaceted crisis that has challenged traditional notions of social resilience, which often center around a single crisis. In response, Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi present an alternative approach in their book, "The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience." The authors begin by describing the multi-dimensional nature of the COVID-19 crisis and then propose pillars for a more resilient post-coronavirus world. They argue that the Coronavirus crisis is not just a single crisis but rather a bundle of interconnected crises that require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept known as multi-resilience. Multi-resilience involves systematically enhancing the universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence and responsiveness, to make them applicable to multi-dimensional crisis contexts. The book includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642598087