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POLDER is an UvA initiative that envisions a future where complex systems thinking, co-creation and simulation models are central to policymaking and education, fostering better, adaptive decisions for cross-generational societal challenges. They aim for a world where decision-making is acknowledged as a complex, adaptive process, and all stakeholders are equipped to co-navigate this intricacy.
Event details of Resilience in Complex Systems: Insights Across Disciplines
Date
16 April 2025
Time
12:00 -17:00
Room
Sweelinck Room

In an increasingly interconnected world, complex systems—from ecosystems and economies to communities and governance structures—are under increasing pressure. How can these systems maintain their resilience in the face of disruption? Bringing together scholars from the fields of ecology, social science and policy, this event will explore the mechanisms that promote stability and adaptation or lead to collapse.

Through a series of talks and participatory group discussions, participants will explore critical questions about resilience: What makes a system resilient? How do different disciplines approach resilience? And how can we translate these insights into actionable strategies? This event is an invitation to rethink resilience in complex systems. 

Programme 

12:00 Arrival and lunch
12:30

Resilience in ecological systems: Triggers, drivers, and the role of noise by John Drake

13:15

The complexity of resilience after childhood adversity by Anne-Laura van Harmelen

13:45

The political ideal of a resilient/antifragile global ensemble of city systems for an Anthropocene within planetary boundaries (and what that ideal needs from science) by Daniël Hogendoorn

14:15 Coffee & cake 
14:45 Flash talks by participants 
15:15 Discussion in groups on questions about resilience 
16:45 Closing
17:00 Drinks elsewhere for those interested

This is an invitation-only event.