The present course will introduce you to the concept of resilience, its basic terminology and current studies, its different areas and types, as well as the interconnections existing among them. Starting from a definition of personal resilience and then moving to community level, considering both the local and global dimensions, the module will guide you in the analysis of those resources, actions and assets that facilitate resilience.
Thus, it will focus on the regional resilience framework/concept, as a long-term integrated planning, providing some case studies for the analysis of specific measures adopted for resilience building, in response to challenging events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it will examine how the effects of a shock may contribute to the increased resilience capacity of a community/region.