Multi-resilience on the Edge Between Development and Sustainability : Requirements for Securing the Future of Societies in the 21st Century

The book, deliberately written in generally understandable language for all interested readers, paints a unique, transdisciplinary overall picture of resilience as a national and international social factor of our time. It shows that in terms of socio-political significance, the concept of resilience is in no way inferior to the older, hitherto dominant concepts of sustainability and development; indeed, it actively complements them, in some cases contradicts them, but also completes them. Resilience as a societal factor involves all sectors, such as politics, the economy, science and civil society, and thus represents an indispensable frame of reference in the overarching recent debate on the "learning society".

Dr. Karim Fathi works in Berlin as a researcher, consultant and teacher in the fields of multidisciplinarity, resilience, conflict transformation and agility. He is currently a researcher at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) on the topics of "Transdisciplinary Complexity Management" and "Systemic Change" and advises the Future Circle of the BMBF.