Resilience Assessment Tool Research Articles

Resilient planning pathways to community resilience to tsunami in Chile

There is growing urgency to develop resilient coastal communities worldwide due to an increase in destructive events. Many resilience assessment models, tools, and frameworks are being developed to guide planners and policy makers for planning resilient communities. However, many lack a multidimensional approach, while others disregard regional variations in indicators' importance, and neglect an adequate community involvement level. In turn, these factors hinder the development of a ‘Resilient Planning Pathway’ (RPP), or a set of planning strategies that consider key local environmental attributes and socio-cultural capacities. The RPP approach has been used in the context of vulnerable groups and urban and landscape planning worldwide. The objective of this study is to identify key resilience aspects to develop RPPs in Chilean coastal communities exposed to tsunami hazards. We used a cross-sectional participatory method with public servants and coastal communities which identifies regional variations in resilience dimensions, in order to define challenges for planners and policy makers. A systematic international literature review in Atlas.Ti revealed 78 resilience composite indicators and six resilience dimensions for tsunami hazards in Chile. Composite indicators were evaluated according to their importance and experience by 134 public servants within 42 coastal communities, revealing the aspects that guide the current development of RPPs. Public servants' responses are similar among macrozones and suggest that RPP development has focused on the physical, socio-cultural, and institutional dimensions, neglecting the ecological and economic dimensions. In contrast, the community opinions from 10 representative coastal settlements collected in 29 focus groups indicated that the importance of composite indicators varies among macrozones and with regards to the public servants' responses. This finding suggests commonalities and differences among macrozones regarding the challenges in developing Chilean coastal communities' RPPs. We believe that our methodological approach could help generate similar assessments in other world zones.

Exploring society‐to‐cells resilience among community members: A multidisciplinary study in outpatient clinics with diverse participant demographics

AbstractAimThis study explores and understands community members' resilience in outpatient clinics, considering various dimensions and types of resilience.DesignA cross‐sectional study.MethodsThis study was conducted in Saudi outpatient clinics from September to December 2023 and included 384 individuals chosen through systematic random sampling. Various tools were used, such as Social Cohesion and Trust Scale, Community Resilience Assessment Tool, Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences, Environmental Resilience Assessment, Economic Resilience Index, Connor‐Davidson Resilience Scale, Brief Resilience Scale, Resilience Scale for Adults and Healthcare Resilience Index.ResultsParticipants displayed a robust overall resilience level, as indicated by Total Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale score of 63.0 ± 9.0. Additionally, they demonstrated commendable levels of resilience in Total Brief Resilience Scale (56.04 ± 8.6), Resilience Scale for Adults (82.5 ± 7.2) and Healthcare Resilience Index (45.8 ± 5.5). These findings offer significant insights into psychological and emotional well‐being of the study population, highlighting their adaptive capacities and coping mechanisms across various life domains.ConclusionThis study provides valuable insights into the multidimensional nature of resilience in outpatient settings. The cross‐sectional design sets the groundwork for future longitudinal investigations, highlighting the need for a holistic approach to understanding and promoting resilience.ImpactThis study holds immediate implications for participants and their communities. It underscores the adaptive capacities and coping mechanisms prevalent in the outpatient population by revealing commendable resilience levels. This insight enhances individuals' psychological and emotional well‐being, contributing positively to the overall resilience and communal strength. Additionally, this study sheds light on how resilience among community members in Saudi Arabia relates to international advanced nursing communities, providing insight into their work.Patient or Public ContributionPatients who have received outpatient services in the past 6 months were purposively chosen to ensure a diverse representation across age, gender and socio‐economic backgrounds in this study.

Proposing a selective sub-tool to activate the role of parks in achieving the resilience of Egyptian cities

The concept of a Resilient City is considered one of the most important contemporary trends in sustainable planning, due to the many risks that cities are exposed to. Parks can support underlying environmental functions and offer several social-ecological advantages when they are strategically located, constructed, and managed. Parks represent one of the most important components of the city and by achieving resilience for an important element in the city, this is reflected in supporting the urban resilience of the city as a whole. The research problem focuses on neglecting the role of parks in achieving the city’s urban resilience, and the absence of clear indicators to activate its resilience in cities. The research addresses the issue by defining a comprehensive theoretical framework that integrates resilient park guidelines and comes up with a proposal for indicators for activating resilient parks. The Egyptian cities, which are developing countries, were chosen to apply the concepts of the study to them. The research deals with the monitoring and analysis of a set of city resilience assessment tools, to reach the most appropriate tools for evaluating one of the components of the city and appropriate to the nature of Egyptian cities and to be guided by this tool to extract a set of proposed indicators for evaluating the resilience park. The City Resilience Index (CRI) tool was developed based on the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and was selected as the best-fit measurement tool. This highlighted the main findings of the research and suggested indicators of park resilience activation.

Evaluating the Emotion Regulation Program on Enhancing Family Resilience

The study aimed to explore the effectiveness of emotion regulation program in enhancing family resilience. By comparing the outcomes between experimental and control groups, the research sought to determine the intervention's impact on improving the resilience levels within family units. A total of 40 participants were divided equally into experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent a emotion regulation program designed to enhance family resilience, while the control group did not receive any intervention. Family resilience was measured for both groups at three time points: pre-test, post-test, and follow-up, using standardized resilience assessment tools. The study employed descriptive statistics, analysis of variance with repeated measurements, and the Bonferroni post-hoc test to analyze the data. The findings indicated significant improvements in family resilience scores for the experimental group from pre-test to post-test, which were largely maintained at follow-up. The analysis of variance revealed significant time, group, and time × group interaction effects, underscoring the intervention's effectiveness. The Bonferroni post-hoc test further confirmed the sustainability of these improvements over time. The study concludes that the emotion regulation program was effective in enhancing family resilience among the participants in the experimental group, with these improvements being sustained over time. These results suggest the potential utility of such interventions in fostering resilience within family units, highlighting the importance of targeted psychological support in resilience enhancement programs.

Development of a Resilience Assessment Model for Manufacturing Enterprises

In today’s world, crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing global changes pose significant challenges for manufacturing companies. Resilience, the ability to withstand and recover from disruptions, is essential for survival. To make resilience actionable, the discussion introduces a four-step Circular Resilience Assessment Tool. To assess their resilience score, companies undergo a risk and vulnerability assessment, a qualitative resilience factor assessment, a suitable strategies identification phase, and a quantitative performance assessment. This tool guides companies in evaluating their resilience before, during, and after hypothetical or occurred crises. The balance among qualitative and quantitative aspects, encompassing technical, social, and organizational considerations, ensures that an omni comprehensive point of view is adopted in evaluating the overall resilience score of a company. This innovative approach empowers companies to not only survive crises but also to gain a competitive advantage and expand their market share in the long term. The work provides a thorough description of each of the four steps, accompanied by examples. The Circular Resilience Assessment Tool is designed to be as specific as necessary and as general as possible, thus making it a valuable resource for a variety of enterprises.

An Innovative Approach to Measure Mental Resilience and Wellbeing at the Individual and Societal Level Using the “Human Condition-4 – Satisfaction Index”

The concept of resilience is one aspect of mental health and coping mechanism that is paramount to understand the relationship between physical and mental health. However, in recent decades, there is a growing dissatisfaction among healthcare professionals with the traditional clinically driven resilience assessment tool. This is largely due to the fact that most resilience measures are unidimensional, with very long questionnaires and fails to address the complex underlying determinates of health. Resilience is a complex multidimensional construct with multiple interacting factors such as epigenetic, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental factors; all play critical roles in developing and modulating resilience in an integrated way. In recognition of that, this paper proposed an easy-to-use diagnostic resilience assessment tool that is person-centred and encompasses personal, community, and societal aspects of individual life. The four proposed domains for measuring resilience are (1) Control – self-determination, (2) Connectedness – social significance, (3) Cohesion – meaning and over-individual context, and (4) “Cherished” – identity and integrity. Furthermore, we propose a four-step guideline for the application of the proposed resilience assessment tool, which is applicable at the individual and societal levels. The overall aim is to support individuals and vulnerable populations by enhancing resilience and mitigating the untoward consequences. The assessment tool and the four-step guidelines can facilitate informed decision-making strategies that are feasible and support sustainable lifestyle changes and improve negatively correlated mental health indicators such as life and suffering, helplessness, social significance, identity, and meaning.

PERBANDINGAN NILAI KETANGGUHAN DESA PESISIR ATAS RISIKO TSUNAMI DAN FAKTOR PERUBAHAN NILAI KETANGGUHAN: STUDI ATAS DESA PARANGTRITIS DAN DESA TIRTOHARGO, KABUPATEN BANTUL

The southern coast of Java Island is a tsunami-prone area, and this condition has encouraged resilience assessment efforts carried out since 2019 by BNPB to test the resilience of villages, specifically in the event of a tsunami disaster. Like other areas on the southern coast of Java Island, Bantul Regency is at high risk, as are Parangtritis Village and Tirtohargo Village. These two villages were purposively chosen for comparison because both villages have the same high level of risk. This research aims to compare the resilience values ​​of the two villages based on assessments in 2019 and 2020 using the Village/District Disaster Resilience Assessment tool, as well as qualitatively exploring the factors that influence the resilience values ​​and changes in the resilience values ​​of the two villages. This study uses a qualitative method. Comparison of resilience values ​​is presented with narratives and comparison tables based on existing components, and exploration is explored through in-depth interviews with parties who help build resilience in the village. The results show that comparing values decreased the resilience value in Parangtritis Village from the Main Resilient Village category to the Middle Resilient Village. At the same time, there was an increase in Tirtohargo Village from the Middle Resilient Village category to the Main Resilient Village. Toughness, which is both above average, is influenced by experiences and lessons learned from the 2006 Earthquake, the strong values ​​of cooperation and independence, community initiatives through the Village DRR Forum, the role of village government, support from regional and central governments, contributions from non-government organizations, and the availability of village budgets. This research notes that enforcing assessment procedures and understanding assessment for facilitators and participants also influence the resulting value changes.

Enhancing corporate readiness for and resilience to future public health threats, development and deployment of the public health readiness and resilience (PHRR) assessment tool.

As the world suffered through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is increasingly clear that the health of populations is foundational to a high-functioning economy, corporate well-being, and a core driver of social justice. Thus, companies need to understand how to become more resilient to current and future threats. This study (1) explored dimensions of resilience from a public health risk-specific lens and reviewed existing evaluation tools and frameworks to develop a methodology and framework (Public Health Readiness and Resilience-PHRR Assessment Tool) for organizations; and (2) leveraged the framework to evaluate a sample of large corporations to validate the insights the tool can provide, confirm functionality, and evaluate the ability to leverage publicly available vs. propriety data to complete the assessment. We conducted a non-exhaustive search for relevant indices using key word searches and cascade sampling. For the initial review of indices (n = 24), the team evaluated each document based on predefined criteria. Gaps identified in the available indices informed the development of the PHRR assessment tool. The tool was then used to examine real-world companies (n = 22) from eight different industries. Findings from the PHRR tool illustrated variation in readiness and resilience as well as the availability of data. Approximately half of the companies analyzed (n = 11) indicated high levels of potential resilience and readiness with significant data available. Leveraging the PHRR Assessment Tool can inform investments and cross-sector partnerships that enhance companies' readiness and resilience to a variety of public health threats. Additional research is needed to further validate this tool.

Probabilistic Assessment of Power Systems Resilience Under Natural Disasters

Extreme weather can have a substantial influence on a power system's operational resilience since they are high-impact, low-probability (HILP) events. Therefore, Power systems must be resilient to HILP incidents in addition to being reliable against widely spread and credible threats. Despite the rarity of such events, the severity of their potential impact necessitates the development of appropriate resilience assessment tools to capture their implications and enhance the resilience of energy infrastructure systems. In this paper, a probabilistic strategy is proposed to assess and evaluate the operational resilience of power distribution networks against the impacts of HILP events depending on value-at-risk and conditionally value-at-risk quantitative risk-based assessments. With several scenarios built on sequentially Monte Carlo simulations, the consequence of a windstorm on a distribution network can be assessed using a probability-based resilience assessment methodology. The presented method is examined on an IEEE 37-bus system. Different case studies based on detailed data are presented and analyzed to demonstrate the proposed method's usefulness.

Association between children's resilience and practising oral habits: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction While resilience is the quality of being buffered against stressors, practising oral habits is suggested to be a maladaptive behaviour towards stressors. The relation between resilience and practising oral habits in children remains vague.Aims This study aims to investigate the association between practising oral habits and resilience in children aged 5-7 years.Materials and methods An electronic Google form questionnaire was distributed through social media among five schools' children's parents, utilising the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-Revised Person Most Knowledgeable version (PMK-CYRM-R) scale as a resilience assessment tool, and the third domain of interview part of the Nordic Orofacial Test-Screen (NOT-S) as a habit assessment tool. The questionnaire received 227 eligible responses which were divided into habit-free group (123; 54.19%) and habit-practising group (104; 45.81%). The third domain of the interview part of the NOT-S included sucking habit, bruxism and nail-biting habits. The mean PMK-CYRM-R scores were calculated for each group and statistical analysis was done using SPSS Statistics package.Results Total PMK-CYRM-R score was 46.05 ± 3.63 in the habit-free group and 44.10 ± 3.59 in the habit-practising group (p = 0.0001). Bruxism, nail-biting and sucking habit subgroups showed statistically significant lower personal resilience levels than the habit-free group.Conclusion The results of the current study suggest that children with low resilience levels may be more likely to practise oral habits.

Using an integrated competence model to evaluate a health visitor cascade training programme for the Family Resilience Assessment Instrument and Tool (FRAIT)

This paper reports on an evaluation of health visitor trainers’ experience of a cascade training programme delivered in Wales, UK. Health visitors used Driscoll’s model (What, So What, Now What) to organise their feedback and an integrated competence model developed by Weeks et al. was used to analyse the feedback via category analysis of free text. As well as feedback on the logistics of running the training, the evaluation allowed for cognitive and functional competence to be identified along with personal and meta competence. There was limited scope for identifying ethical competence in the Health Visitor cascade trainer feedback. Suggestions are made for how this may be addressed.

Choosing a holistic urban resilience assessment tool

Those involved in making resilience strategies and planning are struggling to understand the dynamic and complexity of urban areas and should be presented with a systematic tool, both in assessment and planning, to help them make important choices about which actions, plans, and policies to implement. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that these methods are based on sound theory and are simple and comprehensible. Proper and accurate measurement of resilience are the steppingstones in developing effective resilience plan. Recently, there has been efforts to create tools to measure resilience in urban areas. Several tools have been created, however, there is a lack of evidence-based analysis into these assessment tools. This study is going to address this gap by finding a systemic and holistic approach to assess resilience. The aim is to determine the criteria required for assessing the resilience of the urban complex system by asking series of questions. Furthermore, existing urban resilience assessment tools evaluated to determine whether they can measure urban resilience holistically. Any method to assess resiliency in complex urban systems has to take a holistic approach. The whole urban system needs to be studied to be able to determine the overall behaviour of the system. The Auckland region was chosen to demonstrate how the study's concepts can be applied. Following consideration of specific resiliency criteria, 28 questions were developed evaluate the assessment tools. The Disaster Resilience Scorecard was chosen as the best measuring tool for the determined criteria to be ran within a city.

Assessment of Urban Resiliency Concerning Disaster Risk: A Review on Multi- Dimensional Approaches

There have been a number of new research published with different methodologies and frameworks in recent years, aimed at improving city resilience to a variety of man-made and natural calamities. As climate change progresses, resilience will become a more important topic in scientific and policy circles that influence future urban development. This review article first provides the definition of resilience. Then it represents some of the adopted methodologies in an extensive way. Approaches including Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC), Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI), Disaster resilience index based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Composite indicator based approach, Hyogo Framework and so on. This section discusses about urban resiliency assessments to mitigate vulnerability, offer a set of principles and indicators for creating an urban resilience assessment tool. Findings of this study not only address a variety of qualitative and quantitative aspects of urban resilience but also describes about different indicators such as environmental resources, socio-economic and built environment, infrastructure, governance and institutional indicators. Journal of Engineering Science 12(3), 2021, 111-125

Temporal and Spatial Differentiation in Urban Resilience and Its Influencing Factors in Henan Province

Building resilient cities is playing an increasingly important role in enhancing urban safety and promoting sustainable urban development. However, few scholars pay attention to urban resilience in inland provinces. Choosing Henan Province, as it is a typical representative of China’s major inland economic provinces, has practical guiding significance. This study aims to provide a systematic indicator system and evaluation tool to measure the cuity’s resilience level. Therefore, based on a multidimensional perspective, this paper dissects the urban resilience spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of 18 Henan Province cities with the entropy method, Thiel index, and ESDA (Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis) and explores influencing factors with a spatial econometric model. The main results are as follows: (1) the overall resilience in Henan Province continuously grows, and the resilience level of the Zhengzhou metropolitan area is the highest. In the urban resilience subsystem, economic and social resilience notably drive urban resilience improvement in Henan Province. (2) The spatial difference of urban resilience has been significantly reduced, but the inner metropolitan area presents the characteristics of “core–periphery”. Urban resilience presents a positive spatial correlation, and local spatial agglomeration is relatively stable. (3) Under the state of spatial interaction, urbanization rate, administrative, innovation, market, and industrial structure factors all have significant direct effects and spatial spillover effects on overall resilience, but openness exerts downward pressure on local resilience. (4) On this basis, strategies have been proposed to continuously promote the development of new urbanization, improve the regional coordinated development mechanism, increase market activity, optimize the environment for scientific and educational innovation, and promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure. The approach taken in this research may also be useful for developing urban resilience assessment tools in other central plains cities as well as in other cities in the interior of the world with similar conditions.

Objective and Personalized Assessment of Disease-Related Knowledge Among Patients With Congenital Heart Disease - Development and Validation of the Japanese Version of the Leuven Knowledge Questionnaire for Congenital Heart Disease.

Background: Disease understanding in patients with congenital heart disease is important in transitional and lifelong care. This study aimed to develop the Japanese version of the Leuven Knowledge Questionnaire for Congenital Heart Disease (LKQCHD) and identify factors associated with disease-related knowledge.Methods and Results: After confirming the content and face validity of the scale, a questionnaire including the LKQCHD was distributed to 59 eligible patients aged >16 years attending a university hospital. For the 58 participants who responded (30 males, 28 females; median age 22 years), the mean (±SD) LKQCHD total score was 53.7±15.4, with mean (±SD) scores for each domain as follows: Disease and Treatment, 68.3±19.7; Preventing Complications, 45.8±19.0; Physical Activity, 74.1±34.1; Sex and Heredity, 37.9±35.4; and Contraception and Pregnancy, 40.2±29.1. Regarding known-groups validity, we found a positive correlation between the LKQCHD score and age (ρ=0.268, P=0.042), and a significantly low LKQCHD score in the moderate/severe disease group (η2=0.131, P=0.021). Regarding convergent validity, the LKQCHD score was positively correlated with the total and subscale scores of the Resilience Assessment Tool (r=0.213 [P=0.109] and r=0.405 [P=0.002], respectively).Conclusions: We confirmed the validity of the Japanese version of the LKQCHD, concluding that patient education regarding long-term complications, prevention methods, heredity, pregnancy, and childbirth is needed.

Resilience in survivors of critical illness: A scoping review of the published literature in relation to definitions, prevalence, and relationship to clinical outcomes.

Survivors of critical illness face substantial challenges in their recovery, including physical and cognitive dysfunction. Resilience is the ability to adapt and maintain one's mental health after facing such challenges. Higher resilience levels have been found to be beneficial throughout the illness trajectory in cancer patients, but resilience has not been widely researched in critical care patients. We undertook a scoping review to identify published studies on resilience following critical illness and describe: how resilience has been measured; the prevalence of low resilience in critical care patients; and what associations (if any) exist between resilience and clinical outcomes. We searched: PubMed, Medline, PsychINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, to identify relevant studies. We found 882 unique titles: 17 were selected for full text review, 10 were considered relevant. These included ICU inpatients and survivors, and trauma and sepsis survivors. A broad critical appraisal of each study was undertaken. The overall quality of published studies was low: there was wide variation in resilience-assessment tools across the studies, including the timing of measurement; only one used a validated tool. Estimates of low resilience ranged from 28%-67%, but with varying populations, high risk of inclusion bias, and small samples. Higher resilience levels were significantly associated with lower depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, pain, anger, executive dysfunction, and difficulty with self-care in critical care patients and survivors. Future studies should use validated resilience assessment, determine the optimum timing, and explore prevalence, associations with outcomes, and resilience-promoting interventions in non-selected or clearly defined populations.

A Framework for Urban Flood Resilience Assessment with Emphasis on Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions: A Qualitative Study

In recent years, the effects of climate change have become more noticeable in Iran, especially in big cities. In particular, climate-related flood risk is increasingly recognized as a potential threat in the capital city of Tehran. Accordingly, the present study aimed to provide a framework/assessment tool to measure Tehran’s resilience to flood risks. To this end, 21 professionals from different disciplines were selected through a purposive sampling procedure and were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The analysis procedure resulted in the identification of 3 themes, 15 categories, 40 subcategories, and 235 codes. The themes were social, economic, and organizational; The identified categories were culture and education (since culture is something to be learned through formal and informal education this component has two features: culture and education), participation, trust, attitude, solidarity, resources, empowerment, flexibility, credit, supervision, intercommunication, rules, specialization, and research. Validation of the indicators and their usability based on the opinions of local experts was used to calibrate the assessment tool and ensure its context-sensitivity. The results of this research can help planners and policymakers to increase their awareness of flood resilience. The approach taken in this research may also be useful for developing flood resilience assessment tools in other Iranian cities as well as in other cities of the Global South with similar conditions.

Dynamic assessment of urban resilience to natural hazards

The current urbanization and increase of intensity and likelihood of natural hazard events underline that particular attention must be addressed to strengthening urban resilience to natural hazards. Indicator-based urban resilience assessment tools approach have certain disadvantages, which do not allow considering systemic interaction in terms of feedbacks effects among the urban system components selected for urban resilience assessment. This peculiarity can be provided by system dynamics modelling. This study aims to introduce a dynamic urban resilience to natural hazards assessment tool able to compare different urban resilience scenarios, considering the multi-dimensionality of urban systems and short and long term time reference. As a result of this study, the paper presents the structure of a novel tool and comparison of urban resilience scenarios performed for a local case study with the given tool. Specifically, the implementation of probabilistic simulation in system dynamics model with output in form of index score allows comparison of urban resilience scenarios. The results of model validation and simulation show that the tool is suitable for different urban resilience scenario evaluation, thus is suitable for the development of urban resilience strategies within urban policy planning.

Resilience assessment tool for port planning.

US ports and container/intermodal terminals are critical links in the marine transportation system. Disruption at a port can have a crippling economic effect in the coastal zone as well as the rest of the nation. Port stakeholders have a vested interest in the long-term function and viability of ports, but no standardized measures for performance or resilience exist for ports. The goal of this research is to demonstrate the utility of a predictive port resilience assessment tool. The developed tool encompasses a microscopic traffic simulation model (VISSIM) based hybrid multimodal analyzes of port operations and provides a quantifiable assessment of resilience. The application of this tool is shown on six ports in the Southeast US. The waterside port simulation models were developed using vessel automatic identification system data and programed within a VISSIM simulation of landside operations. This hybrid modeling approach was used to visualize vessels and allow them to interact in both time and space with each other and landside infrastructure. Local and regional resilience was quantified through the analysis of time-dependent resilience plots and used as a performance measure in this study. The utility of the predictive port resilience assessment was demonstrated in response to Hurricane Matthew (2016). However, the novel procedure described herein can be applied to any port hazard. This research grows the understanding of the regional consequences of hurricane events and enhances the knowledge in the development of a stakeholder-focused tool to assess resilience.

Knowledge Structures and Components of Rural Resilience in the 2010s: Conceptual Development and Implications

Resilience is being widely adopted as a comprehensive analytical framework for understanding sustainability dynamics, despite the conceptual challenges in developing proxies and indicators for researchers and policy makers. In our study, we observed how the concept of resilience undergoes continued extension within the rural resilience literature. We comprehensively reviewed rural resilience literature using keyword co-occurrence network (KCN) analysis and a systematic review of shortlisted papers. We conducted the KCN analysis for 1186 papers to characterize the state of the rural resilience literature, and systematically reviewed 36 shortlisted papers to further examine how rural resilience analysis and its assessment tools are helping understand the complexity and interdependence of rural social-ecological systems, over three three-year periods from 2010 to 2018. The results show that the knowledge structure built by the high frequency of co-occurrence keywords remains similar over the three-year periods, including climate change, resilience, vulnerability, adaptation, and management, whereas the components of knowledge have greatly expanded, indicating an increased understanding of rural system dynamics. Through the systematic review, we found that developing resilience assessment tools is often designed as a process to strengthen adaptive capacity at the household or community level in response to global processes of climate change and economic globalization. Furthermore, community resilience is found to be an interesting knowledge component that has characterized rural resilience literature in the 2010s. Based on our study, we summarized conceptual characteristics of rural resilience and discussed the challenges and implications for researchers and policy makers.