Architectural resilience and risk management are interconnected, as resilience is a key aspect of effective risk management. Resilience refers to a system's ability to resist, absorb, adapt to, and recover from shocks, disruptions, and uncertainties, while risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating risks that can affect the system's performance, safety, or compliance. Architecture resilience involves designing and operating a system in such a way as to enhance its resilience, by incorporating redundancy, modularity, flexibility, diversity, and other features that can help it cope with different scenarios and challenges. Risk management, on the other hand, involves identifying potential risks, analyzing their likelihood and impact, and taking actions to avoid, mitigate, transfer, or accept them, based on a careful balancing of costs, benefits, and priorities. Thus, architectural resilience and risk management are both essential components of a comprehensive approach to managing risk in complex systems, such as buildings, infrastructure, cities, or organizations. By integrating resilience into risk management, decision-makers can enhance their ability to anticipate, respond to, and recover from various types of shocks and disruptions, ranging from natural disasters to cyber attacks to pandemics.
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