Abstract:

Faced with emerging risks, resilient governance is increasingly becoming a new choice for human social governance. So far, the academic community has not provided sufficient clarification on key issues. What is resilience governance; what stages of development has it gone through; what is its best state? Dividing governance types into two dimensions of recoverability and adaptability, and comparing resilient governance with rigid, brittle, and capricious governance, clarifies the meaning of resilient governance. After a systematic review of theoretical evolution and key practices, we found that resilient governance has both domestically and internationally undergone a paradigm shift of three stages—engineering, ecological, and social—with both similarities and differences among them. To further develop resilient governance, it is necessary to simultaneously achieve an “eight alls” resilient governance from eight dimensions: all connotations, all fields, all levels, all subjects, all values, all technologies, all processes, and all generations.

Key words: resilient governance, paradigm shift, engineering paradigm, ecological paradigm, social paradigm