Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems
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...It may prove very difficult to transform a resilient system from the current state into a more desirable one (Scheffer et al., 2001; Gunderson and Holling, 2002; Walker et al., 2004)....
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...Social–ecological resilience Interplay disturbance and reorganization, sustaining and developing and re-organize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks (Walker et al., 2004)....
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...It is argued that managing for resilience enhances the likelihood of sustaining desirable pathways for development in changing environments where the future is unpredictable and surprise is likely (Walker et al., 2004; Adger et al., 2005)....
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...In resilience work adaptability is referred to as the capacity of people in a social–ecological system to build resilience through collective action whereas transformability is the capacity of people to create a fundamentally new social–ecological system when ecological, political, social, or economic conditions make the existing system untenable (Walker et al., 2004)....
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...…in a social–ecological system to build resilience through collective action whereas transformability is the capacity of people to create a fundamentally new social–ecological system when ecological, political, social, or economic conditions make the existing system untenable (Walker et al., 2004)....
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...conditions are followed by periods of abrupt, non-linear change, reflected in critical transitions from one stability domain to another when thresholds are crossed (Scheffer et al., 2001; Walker et al. 2004; Lenton et al. 2008, Scheffer 2009)....
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...(Holling 1973; Gunderson and Holling 2002; Walker et al. 2004; Folke 2006) and its links to complex dynamics (Kaufmann 1993; Holland 1996) and self-regulation of living systems...
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...…manifests itself when long periods of seemingly stable conditions are followed by periods of abrupt, non-linear change, reflected in critical transitions from one stability domain to another when thresholds are crossed (Scheffer et al. 2001, Walker et al. 2004, Lenton et al. 2008, Scheffer 2009)....
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...The third is the framework of resilience (Holling 1973, Gunderson and Holling 2002, Walker et al. 2004, Folke 2006) and its links to complex dynamics (Kaufmann 1993, Holland 1996) and self-regulation of living systems (Lovelock 1979, Levin 1999), emphasizing multiple basins of attraction and…...
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...Resilience in this context is defined as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks (18)....
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...In a social-ecological system with high adaptability, the actors have the capacity to reorganize the system within desired states in response to changing conditions and disturbance events (18)....
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...Transformability means creating and defining a new attractor that directs the development of the social-ecological system by introducing new components and ways of making a living, thereby changing the state variables, and often the scales of key cycles, that define the system (18)....
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...The confusion then extends to how a resilience approach (Holling 1973, Gunderson and Holling 2002) can contribute to the goals of sustainable development....
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...Adaptive management (Walters 1986), widely and deservedly promoted as a necessary basis for sustainable development, has frequently failed (Walters 1997) because the existing governance structures have not allowed it to function effectively....
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