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Cascading Failure vs Resilience

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A cascading failure is a failure that starts small but becomes large as it spreads across a system as a chain reaction of interconnected parts. They occur in complex systems such as economies, markets, technologies, infrastructure and ecosystems. Cascading failures are considered a particularly difficult to predict and damaging class of risk. In theory, the failure of a single company can bring down the entire global economy or loss of a single species can cause an ecosystem to collapse.
Resilience is a common term for strategies that seek to prevent cascading failures. The following are a few examples of resilience:
Avoidance of monopolies and single points of failure in markets such as large banks that are "too big to fail."
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Cities that are resource efficient that produce some of their own food and energy may be more resilient to global supply chain shocks.
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Infrastructure with backups and failovers designed to prevent single points of failure.
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A healthy environment may withstand an unexpected environmental disaster whereas an environment already on the brink may not.
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Designs such as amphibious houses that float off of their foundations like a boat in the event of a flood. Typically for houses located near the floodplain of flood-prone rivers.
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A house that produces most of its own energy is generally more resilient to power outages.
Cascading Failure vs Resilience
Cascading Failure
Resilience
Definition
A small failure that becomes a large failure as it spreads across a system of interconnected parts.
A class of strategies that reduce the probability or impact of cascading failures.

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