The paper analyses the meanings of resilience in the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation 2021/241 and the Italian recovery and resilience plan (PNRR).
The paper analyses: 1) The resilience meanings in social sciences: personal, territorial, organisational, administrative; 2) Legal approaches on resilience in common law scholars, focusing the concept of adaptive law; 3) The emerging of resilience in international disaster and humanitarian law, in environmental law and in EU law; 4)The territorial resilience as legal concept in civil law systems? The Italian public law tools facing the recent national and regional statutory provisions about the strengthening of territorial resilience; 5) The Italian legal model of socio-economic and environmental planning and the PNRR. Equal social dignity, cohesion, subsidiarity and participatory democracy in reshaping the public intervention; 6) Between panarchy and epistocracy. Aporias of territorial resilience in post-pandemic governance.