Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Didier Wernli, Mia Clausin, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, John Berezowski, Nikola Biller, Karl Blanchet, Lucas Böttcher, Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Gérard Escher, Antoine Flahault, Keiji Fukuda,10 Dirk Helbing, Philip D Jaffé, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Yuliya Kaspiarovich, Jaya Krishnakumar, Roderick John Lawrence, Kelley Lee, Anaïs Léger, Nicolas Levrat,
Romain Martischang, Chantal M Morel, Didier Pittet, Maxime Stauffer, Fabrizio Tediosi, Flore Vanackere, Jean-Dominique Vassalli, Gaélane Wolff, Oran Young
Abstract
The current global systemic crisis reveals how globalised societies are unprepared to face a pandemic. Beyond the dramatic loss of human life, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered widespread disturbances in health, social, economic, environmental and governance systems in many countries across the world. Resilience describes the capacities of natural and human systems to preve