Abraham Path Initiative, 169–72, 265
academic achievement, 130
acceptance stage, 124
Adams, John, 193
ego-resiliency and ego-control and, 127
loss and, 126
religious beliefs and, 129
Smits and, 115–16
adaptive capacity, 8, 262, 265, 275
of community, 211
in Indonesia, 106
adaptive cycle, 18–19
adoption, 119–20
Africa, Africans, 9–10, 68, 94, 224, 266–67
African Americans, 229
agriculture, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 85, 117
microinsurance and, 262–64
palm plantations, 104–5
thought experiment for, 25–28
urban, 275
alcohol, from sugar palms, 113
Algeria, 66
alleles, 131–32
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), 62–66, 178, 265
altruism, 157–59
Anonymous, 30
anticipation, 80–81
antidepressants, 131
antisocial behavior, 131
antivirus software, 31
personal resilience and, 120, 131, 135, 137, 138, 141, 142
Archer Daniels Midland, 3
arms reduction, 167
Army, U.S., 84, 174, 199–204, 209–10
Aron, Arthur, 166–67
Aron, Elaine, 166–67
Arquilla, John, 65–68, 71–74, 84, 201, 233, 265
arsenic, 212–17
Asia, Asians, 68, 94, 102, 266–67
aspirin safety caps, 196
Auschwitz, 119
autoimmune diseases, 30
Axelrod, Robert, 156–62
Balkans, 201
bananas, “sustainable,” 21
Bangladesh, 211–19, 223, 265, 267
women and girls in, 215–19, 226
Bangladesh Arsenic Mitigation Water Supply Project (BAMWSP), 214–15, 218
Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 215–16
Bank of America, 149, 150, 153, 154
of Lehman Brothers, 148, 150, 154
Hurricane Katrina and, 273–75
Lehman Brothers and, 146–54, 159, 163–64, 172, 190
risk culture of, 198–99
Barclays, 149, 150, 153, 154, 164
bargaining, 124
Bay of Pigs invasion, 200
Bear Stearns, 47, 146, 147, 153
beetles, 27
behavioral contagion, 211
behavioral economics, 89
behavior change, 224, 226, 237
in Bangladesh, 215–18
beliefs, 14, 15–16, 90, 127–30, 226, 273
Bella (Lingfield orphan), 120–21, 127
Bellwood, David, 54–58
Berl (Lingfield orphan), 120
Bernanke, Ben, 146
Bettencourt, Luis, 97
confirmation, 208–9
in-group vs. out-group, 164–66
bin Laden, Osama, 65
in Indonesia, 100, 101, 106–10, 114, 117
in Palau, 241, 243, 244, 245, 249
from palm oil, 104–5
see also ethanol
biological systems, 19
homeostasis in, 194–95
scaling properties of, 95–98
blackouts, 76–79
“black swans,” 28
Block, Jack, 127
Block, Jeanne, 127
Bonanno, George, 123–27, 130, 132, 135, 143
bonds, 43–46
Booth, Bill, 194
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS), 103–4, 108, 110
Boston Miracle, 224–25
BP, culture of risk at, 195–98
amygdala of, 137–38
expected vs. unexpected results and, 208
glucose and, 195
hippocampus of, 137
insula of, 134
meditation and, 133, 134, 136–38, 140, 141
temporoparietal junction of, 134
trust and, 151–52
brands, open-source, 66
Breslin, Ned, 266–67
Brosnan, Sarah, 162
Brown, Jim, 95–96
Browne, John, 197
bul (moratorium on fishing), 247–48, 254
bus drivers, 137
Bushmen, 168
adaptive cycle in, 18
electrical grid and, 75
WIR and, 58
Calderón, Felipe, 2
California, University of (San Francisco), 138–39
capital flows, 42
carbon emissions, 87, 88, 105, 261
Cargill, 3
check engine light in, 9
hybrid electric, 79–80
safety and, 191–96
Caspi, Avshalom, 130–31
Boston Miracle and, 224–25
changing the thinking and, 232–35
hours of, 220
interrupting the contagion and, 228–32
outreach workers of, 220–23
chromosomes in, 138
social isolation and, 130
Center for Global Smart Energy, 75
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 225, 268
centralized counterparty clearinghouses (CCPs), 50–52
Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC), 125–26, 130
Chemical Safety Board, U.S., 197
Chicago, Ill., 62, 64, 211, 273
decline of gun violence in, 237–38
Robert Taylor housing project in, 232–33
shooting deaths in, 223
violence in, 219–38
see also CeaseFire
Chicago Police Department, 228, 229, 231, 238
Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, 223
children:
academic achievement of, 129
ill, caring for, 138–39
risk compensation and, 194, 196
cholera, 227
chromosomes, 138–40
Cisco, 81
cities, 97–100
in the jungle, 100–117
scaling and, 97–99
see also urbanization
Citigroup, 146–47
Clark, Craig, 184–85
Clark, Karen, 219–23
Cleveland, Ohio, 77
climate change, 4, 5, 20–21, 79, 255, 261, 262
cloud computing, 12
cluster epidemiology, 225
in cities, 92–100
of density and diversity, 99–100
in rain forest, 100–117
coal, coal power plants, 84, 87
Coast Guard, U.S., 185
cognitive diversity, 15–16, 99, 117, 191–210, 260, 265
Cohen, Sheldon, 130
Colbert Report, The, 209
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), 43–46
Comcel, 181
command and control model, 65, 66, 82, 178, 203, 209
community, 8, 14, 15–16, 20, 143, 210–38, 259, 261, 275
in Bangladesh, 211–19
global-crisis mapping, 174, 175, 179
personal resilience and, 118, 128, 129
rehearsing the future and, 270–72
compassion, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140
adaptation and, 8–9
holism and, 16–17
of metabolism, 95
RYF and, 28, 31, 40, 47, 49, 59
compost, 109
computers, 189
see also Internet; social media
concentration camps, 119
condoms, 227
confirmation bias, 208–9
conflict resolution, walking and, 167–72
connections, connectivity, 16, 17, 259
electrical grid and, 75
network weaving and, 257
in Palau, 243–44
consciousness, 136
conservation:
energy, 89–91
impediments to collaboration in, 105–6, 115
water, 90
conservation phase, 18
conservatism, 209
Consumer Product Safety Commission, 196
contented people, 237
continuity, 7
convoys, 84
cooperation, 14–16, 90, 129, 143–90, 261, 265, 269
enlarging the tribe and, 166–72
financial industry and, 145–55, 163–64, 172, 190
game theory and, 151–52, 155–62, 172
genetics and, 157–58
in-group and out-group biases and, 164–66
Mission 4636 and, 172–90
oxytocin and, 145, 151–52, 164, 167, 168
perceptions of inequity and, 162–63
strong vs. weak ties and, 186–88
coral reefs, 32–35, 39–40, 54–57, 211, 241, 250
core/periphery social network, 257
diverted to ethanol production, 2, 6, 112
counterinsurgency operations, 72–73, 202
countermechanisms, embedded, 10, 12
counterparty risk, 46, 47, 50, 51
counterterrorism, 63, 65, 72–73
creative destruction, 273
credit default swaps (CDSs), 43–46, 50, 51
crime, criminal organizations, 16, 97–98, 156, 269
crisis mapping, 173–86
critical slowing, 48
critical threshold, 7–10, 31, 32, 70, 260
CrowdFlower, 185
cultural identity, 129
culture:
groupthink and, 200
military and, 200, 201, 203, 209, 210
Mission 4636 and, 188
of resilient places, 273
currency, WIR, 57–60, 231, 265, 275
cyberterrorism, 79
Dalai Lama, 135
Dann, Sophie, 120
Davion (Karen Clark’s client), 220, 222–23
Davidson, Richard, 134–38, 140, 275
Davy, Humphrey, 192
Davy lamp, 192–93
Dayak people, 107–8, 115, 116, 117
debt:
CDOs, 43–46
of Lehman Brothers, 148–51, 153, 163
see also mortgages
decoupling, 10–13, 43, 59, 80–81, 115, 244, 259, 262, 268
de Dreu, Carsten K. W., 164
Del Monte Produce, 21
dependencies, 4, 10, 19, 35, 261
financial system and, 41, 46, 48, 49
depressed-improved, 125–26
depression, 120, 124, 130, 131–32
chronic, 125–26
Detroit, Mich., 18–19, 99, 125, 273
de Waal, Frans, 162–63
dihydrotestosterone (DHT), 153
Dimon, Jamie, 146–47
discontented people, 237
Discriminatory Tit for Tat (DTFT), 165, 174
disease, 10, 30, 61, 98, 267–68
emotions and, 237
TB, 68–71
disruptions, 17, 20, 43, 59, 60, 68, 117, 255, 261, 264, 266, 267, 270, 272–73
adaptive cycle and, 18
Internet and, 28–31
pace of, 4
sustainability and, 21
U.S. insulation from, 261
di Tada, Nicholás, 181
diversification, financial, 46, 47, 48
diversity, 10–12, 15, 16, 59, 210, 259
of financial system, 48
of food crops, 6
see also biodiversity; cognitive diversity
diversity/bandwidth tradeoff, 187
doctors, ER, 141
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 154–55
drug cartels, 269
Dunbar, Kevin, 205–8
Dunedin study, 130–31
Duvall, Robert, 204
du Vigneaud, Vincent, 145
dynamic systems, 14, 17–18, 60, 61
in Haiti, 172–86; see also Mission 4636
in Pakistan, 190
TED and, 9
East Africa, 175
East Midlands Airport, 63–64
EBFM, see ecosystem-based fishery management
E. coli researchers, 206
ecology, ecological systems, 4–9, 19, 175
for bankers, 39–43
coral reef, 32–35
in Palau, 244
“Ecology for Bankers” (Sugihara, Levin, and May), 40–41
economics, economy, 5, 8, 10, 17, 19, 211, 274
competition and, 258
Icarus camp and, 20
in Indonesia, 100, 106, 107, 114, 115, 117
WIR and, 58–59
ecosystem, 6, 8, 17, 36, 40, 155
rain forest, 105, 107, 114, 115
trophic web and, 41
ecosystem-based fishery management (EBFM), 36–38, 50, 52, 60, 271
ecosystem indicators, 37
Education Ministry, Haitian, 189
efficiency, 9, 17–18, 26, 27, 28, 40, 192, 257, 261
of cities, 98
diversity and, 59
energy and, 77, 86, 87, 88, 91
ego-control, 127
ego-resiliency, 127
elections, 174–75
electrical grid, 12, 74–92, 222
blackouts and, 76–79
design principles for future of, 80–81
personal energy and, 85–87
proprioception and, 81
scale and swarm and, 83–92
Electric Power Research Institute, 80, 87
Elmdi-Kamaldi, 218
email, 173–74, 177, 178, 182, 207
emergency response, 6–7
see also first responders
disease and, 237
resilience and, 132–43
empathetic mimicry, 167
conservation of, 89–91
in ecosystem, 41
from palm oil, 104–5
see also electrical grid
Energy for Opportunity, 179
energy security, 16
engineering, engineers, 6–7, 30–31, 74, 80, 188, 192
Enquist, Brian, 95–96
environmental protection, 90
see also Palau; Samboja Lestari
Epel, Elissa, 138–39, 140, 265, 275
EpidemicIQ, 267–68
epileptics, synchrony in, 48
Escobar, Angelina, 235–36
European Union, 59
Everything Myth, 224
exchange-based trading, 51–52
executive recruiters, 207
exponential growth, 98–99
Facebook, 174, 176, 179, 183, 209, 267, 268
failures, 31–32
of Bangladeshi wells, 219
financial, 39, 40, 42–43, 48, 146–55, 159
of Mission 4636, 189–90
multiplicative, 40
of resilient systems, 13–14, 16
Fannie Mae, 146
FarmVille (video game), 268
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 41
FedEx, 62–64
feedback loops, 40, 60, 89, 127, 259, 260, 263
Mission 4636 and, 188–89
neural, 167
Palau and, 244
risk homeostasis and, 195
Fehr, Ernst, 152
firefighters, 141
firewalls, 31
first responders, in Haiti, 176, 179, 184–86, 189
fish, fisheries, 33–40, 54–57, 231, 271
in Palau, 241–50, 254, 256, 257
FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch), 266–67
flu shots, 130
focused attention, 133–34, 139
food, 243
arsenic in, 214
see also corn
food chain, 37
forest rangers, 194
forestry, 117
see also rain forests
forward operating bases, 84
fragility, 14, 17, 20, 23, 27–31, 40, 199, 259–62, 267
of orangutans, 103
urbanization and, 94
see also robust-yet-fragile (RYF) system
Framingham Heart Study, 237
Freddie Mac, 146
Freud, Sigmund, 123–24
Freudians, 125–26
Friedman, Milton, 163
FrontlineSMS (now MedicMobile), 179, 180, 182, 183
fuel cells, 84
fuel costs, 2, 3, 17, 19, 84, 218
Fuld, Richard, 146
furnaces, household, 195
future, rehearsing of, 270–72
game theory, cooperation and, 151–52, 155–62, 172
gamma waves, 136
Garmezy, Norman, 121–22
Geertz, Clifford, 128
genes-environment interaction (GxE), 130, 131
genetics, genes, 130–33, 137, 138
cooperation and, 157–58
genome, human, 130
geothermal heat, 113–14
Global Environment Fund, 75
global finance, 32, 39–54, 98–99
coral reefs compared with, 54–57
global financial crisis, 39–40, 41, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52–53, 57, 99, 145–55
overconnection and, 265
risk culture and, 199
Global South, megacities in, 94
glucose, 195
Godfather, The (film), 204
Golbuu, Yimnang, 252
Goldman Sachs, 146–47, 153, 155
Goslinga, Rose, 263–64
Gould, Elizabeth, 130
governance, adaptive, 15–16
Granovetter, Mark, 186–87
granulomas, 70–71
Grayling, A. C., 152
Great Barrier Reef, 55, 101, 241
Great Britain, 20, 45, 191, 241
Great Depression, 57
greenhouse gas emissions, 105
GREENS (Ground Renewable Expeditionary Energy System), 85
Greenspan, Alan, 146
green tax, 249
grief, 123–26
group collaboration, 117
biases and, 164–66
cognitive diversity of, 117
loyalties to, 129
in terrorist networks, 66, 67, 71
growth phase, 18
Guerry, Anne, 272
Guilbeaux, Michael, 255
guppies, 195
H1N1 influenza, 234
first responders in, 176, 179, 184–86, 189
see also Mission 4636
Haldane, Andrew, 49–53, 80, 268
Hall, Steve, 203–4
Hamilton, William, 157
Hancock Bank, 273–75
hardiness, 127–28
Harvard University, 134–35, 237
Program on Negotiation of, 168
Hayward, Tony, 197
health belief model, 226
health care, 9–10, 52, 175, 194, 224–27, 234, 261
EpidemicIQ and, 267–68
Hill, Allison, 237
financial system and, 40, 49, 50
Holley, June, 256–57
Holling, C. S. “Buzz,” 18
Holocaust, 119
homophily, 186
Hood, Robin, 236
Hora and Tempus parable, 11
hospitality, 170–71
hotels, towel reuse in, 89–90, 227
Houston, Oberon, 198
hub and spoke model, 256
human beings:
orangutans vs., 106
scaling and, 96
as social primates, 162–63
hunter-gatherers, 30
Hurricane Katrina, 2, 3, 4, 6, 17, 19, 267
hydropower, 83–84
Icarus camp, 20
Idechong, Noah, 245–57, 265, 272
social networks and, 130
inequity, cooperation and, 162–63
inequity aversion, 163
information, 5, 155, 175, 263, 275
adhocracy of, 266–70
in Bangladesh, 214
confirmation bias and, 208
electrical grid and, 79, 82–83, 89, 91
Haitian earthquake and, 176–77, 184, 185, 189
Internet and, 28–30
about Kenyan postelection violence, 174–75
military and, 73
in Palau, 250–53
strong ties and, 187
weak ties and, 186
innovations, 20–21, 192, 262–64
electrical grid and, 83–92
speed and, 99
insurance contracts, CDSs, 43–46
International Network of Crisis Mappers, 175
Internet, 5, 12, 28–31, 40, 42, 62, 93, 173, 269
electrical grid compared with, 74, 81, 85
routing system of, 28–29, 31, 73
vulnerability of, 29
intimacy, Arons’ experiments on, 166–67, 170
iPod, 19
Iraq, 67, 72, 84, 204, 223, 233
isolation, social, 130
Jack (Lingfield orphan), 120, 127
Janis, Irving, 200
Japan, Japanese, 241–42, 243, 245
Jezierski, Ed, 181
Johannes, Robert, 242
JPMorgan Chase, 146–47
Jullien, François, 202
Kalisch, Raffael, 140–41
Khalil, David, 130
Khan, Samir, 62
Kilimo Salama, 262–64
kin selection, 157
Koror, 241, 242, 243, 247, 251
KPMG, 198–99
Krebs, Valdis, 256–58
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 124
LaMarre, Heather, 209
La Niña currents, 35
latent phase:
of BP, 197
see also translational leaders
Leah (Lingfield orphan), 120
Lebanon War (2006), 67
Lehman Brothers, 39, 47, 48, 51, 146–54, 159, 163–64, 172, 190
Levin, Simon, 40–41, 43, 48, 49
limbic systems, 136
Lindemann, Erich, 124
Lipton, Douglas, 39
living systems, 17–18
Lobo, José, 97
Long-Term Capital Management, 52–53, 147, 150
loving-kindness (compassionate meditation), 134, 136
McDonough, William, 147
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 137
malaria, 224
Manifest Destiny camp, 20–21
Marine InVEST, 270–72
Marine Protection Act, 248, 250
Marines, U.S., 84, 142, 184–85, 265
marked to market accounting, 51
Massachusetts General Hospital, 137–38
Massive Retaliation, 159
Masson, Frédéric, 171
Masten, Ann, 122
MasterCard, 30
maximum sustainable yield (MSY), 36, 37, 40, 156
May, Robert, 40–41
meditation, mindfulness, 132–43
Meier, Patrick, 173–74, 176–79, 184, 188, 240
Merrill Lynch, 146–47, 153, 154
Merritt, Carolyn, 197
metabolism, 61, 65, 69, 71, 95, 96
methane, 193
Mexico City, 1–4
tortilla riots in, 1–2, 4, 112, 260
microinsurance, 262–64
MicroInsurance Centre, 264
Microsoft, 19
military, U.S., 233
counterterrorism and, 72–74
Internet and, 28
meditation and, 142
microgrids and, 84–85
Red Team University and, 199–204, 209–10, 229, 265, 272
mind:
habits of, 14, 15–16, 130, 141, 143, 275
mourning and, 123
mindfulness meditation, 132–43
mining, 192–93
Mintzberg, Henry, 264
Mission 4636, 172–90, 215, 240, 270
failures of, 189–90
Haitian Kreyol and, 182–85
Kenyan roots of, 174–76
phase two of, 185
volunteers and, 173–74, 177–79, 183–90, 265
mobile phones, 10, 180, 184, 262–63, 267
Moffitt, Terrie E., 130–31
money, 59, 114, 151–52, 197, 238, 249
Hurricane Katrina and, 273–74
moral hazard, 147
Morgan, David L., 164–65
Morgan Stanley, 146–47, 151, 155
mortgages, 43, 44, 46, 53, 146, 147
mother-child separation, 121
“Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud), 123
MPAs (Marine Protected Areas), 249
M-Pesa, 262–63
multihub (small world) social network, 257
multispecies portfolio, 38–39
Mumbai, terrorist attacks in, 68, 269–70
Munich, 195–96
National Academy of Engineering, 74
National Action Party (PAN), 2
National Capital Project, 270
National Research Council, 41
Nesbit, Josh, 179–80, 182–83, 185, 187, 188, 240
netting process, 51
network franchise model, 65–66
biological, 95
financial, 40–43, 49, 50, 52–53, 57, 59
importance of, 19
Internet and, 28–31
in Iraq war, 72
social, 129–30, 186–87, 207, 228–31, 233, 234, 237, 238, 255–58
terror, 61–74
neurobiology, of trust, 151–52, 153
neuroplasticity, 137–38
neuroscience, 132, 134, 137, 172
neurotransmitters, 131
New York, N.Y., 93, 97, 98, 110, 180, 269
West Village in, 99
World Trade Center attacks in, 126
New Zealand, 130–31
New Zero, 84
Ngeremlengui, 242
NGOs, 214
Haiti and, 176, 177, 179, 185–86, 189
niches, expansion of range of, 8
Nocera, Dan, 85–87
North Dakota, 28
nuclear energy, 87
Obama, Barack, 62
oceans, acidification of, 8
oil palms, 104–5, 107, 108, 111
Okolloh, Ory, 174–75
Open311, 269
open monitoring (attending), 133, 134, 137, 141–42
openness, 30
Operation Hemorrhage, 62–67
Opower, 89–91
orangutans, 100–107, 109, 110, 112, 116, 244
“Ordinary Magic” (Masten), 122
organizations, 9, 15, 16–17, 261
assembly line-driven, 65
electrical grid and, 75
Oslo talks, 168
out-group derogation, 164–65
outpost and outreach, 72
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), 88–89
Page, Scott, 204–5
pain, blocking out, 136, 140–41
Pakistan, 190
democratic government in, 242, 243
globalization and, 243–45
Japanese in, 241–42
marine biology and ecology scientists in, 250–53, 257
scuba diver-fishermen conflict in, 245–49, 256
village leaders in, 246–48, 252–53
Palau Conservation Society, 250, 251
Palau National Congress, 254
Palau Natural Resources Divisions, 245–50
Palau Trench, 241
palm oil, 104–5
PAN (Protected Areas Network), 250
Pandit, Vikram, 146–447
Pargament, Kenneth, 128
parrotfish, 54–56
patents, 114
Paulson, Henry, 145–50, 153–56, 172
PayPal, 30
peat land, 105
Peltzman, Sam, 193
Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland and Midwest Independent System Operator regional grids, 78–79
Perez, Frank, 232–35
personal energy, 85–87
personal resilience, 14, 16, 117–43, 259
Bonanno’s studies and, 123–27, 130
correlates with, 127–32
emotions and, 132–43
genetics and, 130–32
of Lingfield four, 118–21, 127
schizophrenia and, 121–22
persuasion, 89
Petramina, 113
pharmaceutical companies, 94, 145
photosynthesis, artificial, 85–86
photovoltaics, 86
pituitary gland, 144
planetary boundaries, 8
plankton, 37
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, 225
police, 156
terrorism and, 67–68
populations, homeostasis in, 195
Port-au-Prince, 172, 177, 181–84, 189
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 126, 127
poverty, the poor, 4, 20, 121, 176, 260
in Palau, 243
power plants, 83–86
Power Shades, 84–85
pregnancy, labor in, 144–45
prenatal complications, 121
Pressman, Sarah, 130
Prisoner’s Dilemma, 156–62
Propensity of Things, The (Jullien), 202
proprioception, 81
prosperity, mutual, 171
Protected Area Network Act, 254
protocols, information, 82–83, 87, 92
Prozac, 131
psychoanalysis, 123–24
psychology, 6–7, 120–27, 134–37, 139–40, 142–43, 204, 226, 261
psychopharmaceuticals, 141
punishment, 224
radar, 204
railroads, 83
rain forests, 100–117
regrowing of, 100, 101, 106–10, 115–16, 215
Rand, David, 161–62
Rapoport, Anatol, 160
Rasmussen, Eric, 181
rats, social isolation in, 130
real-time monitoring and reaction, 80–81
recession, 58
economic, 58
from grief, 125–26
Red Team University (University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies), 199–204, 209–10, 229, 265, 272
release phase, 18
“Religion as a Cultural System” (Geertz), 128
religious faith, 128–29
Remengesau, Tommy, 254
reorganization, 18
of U.S. military, 72
resilience, 5–23
as emerging discipline, 5–6
resilient group, 125–26
resilient places, learning from, 272–76
Revel, Jean-François, 135
Revette, Dewey, 198
rewards, 162–83, 192, 194, 199
rice, arsenic in, 214
risk compensation, 193–96
risk homeostasis, theory of, 194–96, 199, 226
risk management, 40–41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 52, 260, 261–62
Robert Taylor housing project, 232–33
robust-yet-fragile (RYF) systems, 25–60, 261
defined, 27
global finance as, 32, 39–54, 98–99
Rockström, Johan, 8
Ronfeldt, David, 65
routing system, Internet, 28–29, 31, 73
Rytina, Steve, 164–65
Safaricom, 262
safety, 191–98
Saha, K. C., 213
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, 66
Samboja Lestari (Everlasting Forest), 107–17, 244
San Francisco General, 225
Santiago, Alex, 235
sardine industry, 35–36
SARS epidemic, 126
satellite phones, 269–70
Saudi Arabia, 63
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems, 77–80, 82, 83, 87
of biological systems, 95–98
Schewe, Phillip, 78
schizophrenia, 121–22
Schumpeter, Joseph, 273
scientific research, 205–8
scuba diving, 245–49, 254, 256
sea urchins, 33, 34, 35, 39, 48
self-organized criticality, 32
electrical grid and, 77, 80–83
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 65, 68, 80, 126, 154
serotonin, 131
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 183
Sewell, Rosalind, 173–74, 176, 177, 189
sexual behavior, risk and, 194, 226
Sherif, Muzafer, 164
shi (propensity), 202–3
Silicon Valley, 93
Simon, Herb, 11
single-firm risk analysis, 40
Skype, 177, 178, 180, 182, 183
sleeping functional group, 56–57
Slutkin, Gary, 223–28, 231, 234, 275
smart meters, 87–89
Smith, Adam, 163
Smith, Martin, 39
Smith, Ruth S., 129
Smits, Willie, 100–117, 171, 215, 240, 244
SMS (text messages), 174, 180–85
social development, 16
social isolation, 130
social media, 269
EpidemicIQ and, 267–68
Haiti earthquake and, 173–74, 176, 177
see also Facebook; Twitter, tweets
social networks, 129–30, 186–87, 207, 255–58, 264
in Chicago, 228–31, 233, 234, 237, 238
social norms, 89, 91, 211, 226–27
changing of, 235–38
social proof, 89–91
social resilience, 143–258
cognitive diversity and, 117, 191–210
community and, 210–38
trust and, 143, 145, 151–52, 153, 164, 167–72
sociopathic behavior, 131
solar energy, 83–86, 91, 112, 114
Sony, 19
Southern Command, U.S. (SOUTHCOM), 184, 185
Soviet Union, 28, 30, 167, 204
spouse, loss of, 125–26
State Department, U.S., 29–30, 179–80, 185–86
stock, stock market, 45, 57, 146, 154–55
Stockholm Resilience Centre, 8
Stodder, James, 58
Stranahan, Alexis, 130
strategic looseness, 259–60
stress, 131, 137, 138–39, 141, 153
stress diathesis (genetic vulnerability), 131
stress hormone tests, 167
stress testing, of banks, 53, 60
STRONG Project, 142
strong ties, 186–88
of electrical grid, 83–85
of global finance system, 40
of 33 Liberty Street meeting, 149–50
sugar palms, 111–15
sugar-processing factory, portable (the Village Hub), 112–14
Sugihara, George, 35–38, 40–41, 47–48, 49
Sun Catalytix, 86
Sunni Awakening, 72
superlinear scaling, 98
electrical grid and, 83–92
TB and, 71
synchrony, 48
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, 262
system flip, 19, 47–50, 57, 176
taxi drivers, 120, 137, 195–96
teachers, supportive relationships with, 129
Teamwork Saves the Day, 148, 150, 154, 155
technology, 173, 183, 188, 190, 242, 262–64, 270, 275
in Bangladesh, 212
electrical grid and, 77–79, 81–92
portable sugar-processing factory, 112–14
telephone calls, electrical grid and, 78–79
telomeres, 138–40
temperate zones, 109
Terezin, 119
terrorists, terrorism, 16, 61–68, 80, 169, 202
infection compared with, 61, 68–71
personal resilience and, 126
Tester, 159
testosterone, 153
theory of reasoned action (TRA), 226
thinking, violence and, 232–35, 237
third side, 168–69, 172, 190, 236
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 179, 181
tipping points, 28, 31, 176, 242, 244
Tit for Two Tats, 161–62
Toffler, Alvin, 264
tortilla riots, 1–2, 4, 17, 112, 260
traffic, 191–92
transition, 22
Transition Towns, 20
translational leaders, 15–16, 239–58, 265, 266
brokering relationships and, 255
network weaving and, 256–58
in Palau, 245–57
transparency, 40, 47, 51–52, 149, 155, 249, 267, 268
electrical grid and, 77
Ushahidi and, 175
in Bonanno’s studies, 123–27, 132
Trivers, Robert, 158
trophic web, 41
trust, 14, 15–16, 46, 47, 143, 145, 164, 260
of Hancock Bank, 274
Mission 4636 and, 188
walks and, 167–72
Trust Game, 151–52
T-shirts (gallons of water needed to produce), 10–11
tuberculosis (TB) infection, 68–71, 73, 227
tube wells, 212–19
Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 173–74, 177, 178
Tufts University, 177–78
Twitter, tweets, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 187, 209, 267, 270
Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED), 9
UAP Insurance, 262
Uce (orangutan), 102, 103, 105, 107
UNDAC (Disaster Assessment and Coordination), 184
unemployment, 53, 57, 58, 121, 243
Union Haiti, 183
United Kingdom, 63–65
United Nations (UN), 93–94, 102–3, 254, 268
Haiti earthquake and, 184, 185–86, 189
biofuels in, 112
BP Deepwater Horizon oil well disater in, 196–98
electrical grid in, 74–92
financial system of, 41–42, 50, 51–52, 58, 59, 145–55
gas prices in, 2
greenhouse gas emissions of, 105
Haitians in, 183
military in, 28, 72–74, 84–85, 142, 199–204, 209–10, 233
palm oil in, 104
smoking in, 225–26
Soviet relations with, 167
suburbs in, 94
terrorism and, 63, 66, 67–68, 72–73
vacation from history in, 261
University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (Red Team University), 199–204, 209–10, 229, 265, 272
UPS, 62–64
urban planning, 16
Ury, William, 168–72, 188, 236, 265
Ushahidi, 175–79, 181, 182, 184, 189, 267
Ushahidi-Haiti @ Tufts, 178, 188
values, 14, 15–16, 188, 199, 243, 273, 275
Verner, Willoughby, 191–92
Victor, Steven, 252
violence, 97–98, 129, 141, 174–75
in Chicago, 219–38
Viscusi, Kip, 196
wages, 97–98
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, 135–36, 138, 140
Walmart, 86–87
war gaming, 201–2
Wason, Peter, 208
conservation of, 90
as ecosystem indicator, 37
electricity and, 83–84, 85, 86
hackers and, 79
real-time data and, 266–67, 268
weather:
electrical grid and, 75, 76, 79
microinsurance and, 262–64
weddings, 170–71
Werner, Emmy E., 129
West, Geoffrey, 94–99, 116, 199
WikiLeaks, 29–30
Wilde, Gerald, 194–96
Wilkinson, Jim, 154
Williams, Kobe, 232–33
Wilson, E. O., 166
wind energy, 83–84
WIR (Wirtschafstring), 57–60, 231, 265, 275
women and girls:
condom use and, 337
as scientists, 107–8
Words of the Lagoon (Johannes), 242
World Health Organization (WHO), 213, 214, 224, 268
World Trade Center attacks, 126
World War II, 242
Worm, Boris, 36
Zoloft, 131