Restoration asks us “what can we bring back to help us with the coming difficulties and tragedies?”

Relinquishment asks us “what do we need to let go of in order to notmake matters worse?”

Resilience asks us “how do we keep what we really want to keep?”

The third area can be called “restoration.” It involves people and communities rediscovering attitudes and approaches to life and organisation that our hydrocarbon-fuelled civilisation eroded.

second area of this agenda, which I have named “relinquishment.” It involves people andcommunities letting go of certain assets, behaviours and beliefs where retaining them could make matters worse.

we can conceive of resilience of human societies as the capacity to adapt to changing circumstances so as to survive with valued norms and behaviours.