Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems.

Walker, B., Holling, C. S., Carpenter, S. R., & Kinzig, A. P. (2004). Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 9(2).

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2004

DOI

10.5751/es-00650-090205

Link

https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00650-090205

Cited from

biology_ecology, synthesized, systems_cybernetics

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Primes

• Adaptive Capacity
  • Adaptive capacity is the reorganization-reserve principle: the set of latent resources, structural flexibilities, learning mechanisms, and slack that determine how effectively a system can reorganize itself—changing its own configuration, parameters, rules, or components—in response to disturbances that exceed its current first-tier regulation
• Environmental Coupling Strength
  • A sealed spacecraft exhibits low coupling to the external vacuum; an open-air city exhibits high coupling to weather and external supply chains.

    This sourceEstablishes resilience, adaptability, and transformability as cross-substrate pattern-level attributes; resilience has components of latitude, resistance, precariousness, and panarchy. SUPPORTS markers 195, 195a, 195b, 195c (multi-domain transferability; adaptability-transformability axis; multi-dimensional coupling; regime-dependent transitions across stability domains).

• Resilience
  • The function may be singular (e.g., "maintain continuous power delivery") or bundled (e.g., "keep ecosystem services flowing"), as Walker, Holling, Carpenter, and Kinzig (2004) develop in their treatment of resilience, adaptability, and transformability in social-ecological systems

    This sourceDevelops the trio of resilience (absorb disturbance), adaptability (adjust responses), and transformability (create new system) for social-ecological systems; treats functions as bundled across nested scales.

• Self-Organized Criticality
  • Resilience: Resilience (capacity to maintain function under perturbation and recover quickly) is an emergent property of self-organized criticality systems, a definition Walker, Holling, Carpenter, and Kinzig (2004) refined as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, and feedbacks.

    This sourceRefines resilience as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, and feedbacks; explicit linkage between multi-scale variability and emergent robustness.

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