"Contingency planning is also under way including a national exercise and wider resilience training to ensure the UK is fully prepared," she said.
This will include a simulated Cobra meeting headed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to "learn any wider resilience lessons" the Department of Health (DoH) says, in addition to actors playing out symptoms of the deadly disease for healthcare workers.
The study therefore focused on the adaptive capacity of households for wider resilience programming.
So system-wide resilience is the key to health -- the equivalent of a strong immune system.
This suggests a need for future conservation and management efforts to identify and protect regional refugia, which should be integrated into existing management frameworks and combined with policies to improve system-wide resilience to climate variation and change.
Discrete management of genetically distinct populations can increase species-wide resilience and stabilize the productivity of ecosystems as a whole (Hilborn et al. 2003; Schindler et al. 2010).
In the case of relocation, an example would be transport of fish populations in the Southwest that become stranded as water levels drop to river reaches with appropriate flows (e.g., to preserve species representation and system-wide resilience; Palmer and others 2008).
Nonetheless, there is wide recognition that resilience potentially provides a valuable framework for policy and practice on the basis of its focus on developing the capacities of populations and anticipating 'shocks' to systems.
But many players felt their team should play to show their neighbors and the wider world their resilience in the face of disaster.
The concept of equipping disaster survivors with skills to volunteer in recovery efforts within their own communities creates a practical model for contributing to sustainable, community-wide recovery and resilience.
We offer a contribution to this topic by providing a wider conceptualization of resilience and an innovative method of measuring it, borrowing from studies in other disciplines such as ecology, complexity science, and engineering.
