“This book is an impressive compass for the Post-Corona World. It makes clear that Multi-Resilience is the central answer to the challenges of a sustainable future.”– Professor Dr. Uwe Schneidewind, Former Director of the Wuppertal Institute and Professor for Innovation Management and Sustainability at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal“Managing global crises-bundles and bundle-crises in the 21st century is in large parts a challenge of transdisciplinary complexity management. This book outlines the concept of societal multi-resiliency as a promising and necessary approach towards systemic future-preparedness.”– Dr. Louis Klein, Vice-President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) and Dean of the European School of Governance (EUSG) Berlin“Corona, Lehman and the foreseeable next crises have a common cause: a non-sustainable life form. As long as this development continues, by only focusing on curing the symptoms, the next crises of civilization are pre-programmed. This book offers an exemplary overview of Post-Corona discourses and identifies practical starting points for complexity-adequate multi-resilience strategies.”– apl Professor Dr. Niko Paech, Department of Production and Environment, Faculty of Economics, University of Siegen“Benedikter and Fathi make a major contribution to one of the most pressing questions of our time: How to re-organize the world after Corona? This book provides one of the most encompassing accounts of – and overview over – the Coronavirus crisis 2019-20 available on the market. It also presents one of the most original and complexity-adequate solution patterns, including an advanced concept of prevention and anticipation branded ‘Multi-Resilience’. A must-read for everybody who wants to be informed in-depth and understand how to prepare for the next upcoming global emergency.” – Professor Dott. Andrea Billi, University Rome I - La Sapienza, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Director, Sapienza Innovazione (Sapienza Innovation - SI)“The globe is asking: What will the Post-Corona world look like? The answer is in principle a fundamental hope: A better, more just world. This book contributes to exemplarily sketch the path toward such a different world by undertaking the two indispensable steps needed: first, by carefully reconstructing what happened, including countless examples of the phenomenology of the crisis, its many side effects and ramifications. Second, by providing the practical tools to master transformation positively in order to build a more resilient global society. I can hardly think of one concept, one thought, one aspect that has not been elaborated in this book in a comprehensive, multi- and transdisciplinary way. The Corona epidemic worked as magnifying lens on the state of our planet, and the authors offer a multi-facetted view on several potential futures. Will we forget the lecture learned as soon as we have a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2? This volume tells me that the odds are against this proposition: there is no going back to business as usual. Post Corona est ante majorem proximum angustum.”– Professor Dr. Roland Psenner, Head of the National Committee “Global Change” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna“In addition to a rich and multifaceted knowledge transfer for a Post-Corona world, the authors describe five principles for multi-resilience. The existing resilience strategies against the Coronavirus pandemic and future emergencies are not sufficient and are therefore not sustainable. The discussion triggered by the Coronavirus pandemic about a reorientation of globalization, i.e. toward re-globalization, is excellently described and illustrated by examples. There is no comparable book in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic, given that this one is committed to a fairer and better world potentially coming out of the crisis with many concrete theses. This book belongs in the hands of everyone who wants to be comprehensively informed about possible progress in a Post-Corona world. It also belongs in the hands of social and political decision-makers and should be made compulsory reading for students.” – Werner Mittelstaedt, futurist, author of many books about sustainable futures, founder and editor of the journal Blickpunkt Zukunft [“Viewpoint Future“]"Without doubt, the COVID pandemic has shed light on human vulnerabilities and capabilities on a variety of scales. Our humanity, as an interactive system of biological, psychologic, socio-economic, and political domains and dimensions has been affected by, and reactive to both the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the current structures and functions of institutions of healthcare, public safety, economic stability, and political leadership. The pandemic has been a crisis, in the most literal sense - a time of difficulty, decision, and change. The question remains as to whether, and to what extent, the COVID crisis will evoke change to these regnant systems. Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi address this question, and its embedded and derivative scientific, socio-economic, political, and cultural issues. To be sure, their invocation to regard, heed and engage the status quo is telling, informative, and rightly provocative. The American historian Daniel J. Boorstin has stated that "...education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"; and in that light, Benedikter and Fathi provide a stellar education based upon - and responsive to - what the COVID crisis may teach, and prompt - if not require - the world to learn."– James Giordano, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry and Senior Scholar-in-Residence, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, and Senior Research Fellow Biosecurity, Technology, and Ethics, US Naval War College, Newport, RI, USA----------------------------------------Online conference and book presentation with Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi. The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps Towards Multi-Resilience in: eurac research
