Measurable Resilience for Actionable Policy

Unprecedented losses associated with adverse events such as natural disasters and cyber-attacks have focused attention on new approaches to mitigating damages. Whereas the dominant analytic and governance paradigm of the last several decades has been risk analysis, recently rhetoric has shifted toward the necessity of understanding and designing forresilience.1,2Despite it being an established feature of sustainable technological, ecological, and sociological systems,3planned resilience still requires metrics that are both precise to measure individual system qualities and generalizable to inform resource allocation and operation.