Resilience is not easily defined nor executed. It is the combination of many factors and actions by multiple individuals and groups. Typically it is not a number one priority for any institution or government, yet taken as a whole the investments in resilience pays huge dividends when disasters do strike.
Resilience is asymmetric because the path to resilience is not predefined. It has many shapes and sizes, defined by all the actions taken, or not taken, by people and institutions as they make their choices in building and designing for the future. One thing is certain, real resilience is not defined by what you do at the time of the disaster, but what you have done in preparing in advance for events and circumstances that we wish on no one.
