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- Title
Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems.
- Authors
Walker, Brian; Holling, C. S.; Carpenter, Stephen R.; Kinzig, Ann
- Abstract
This article states that the stability dynamics of all linked systems of humans and nature emerge from three complementary attributes: resilience, adaptability, and transformability. These three attributes are examined deeply in this article. There is a major distinction between resilience and adaptability, on the one hand, and transformability on the other. Resilience and adaptability have to do with the dynamics of a particular system, or a closely related set of systems. Transformability refers to fundamentally altering the nature of a system.
- Subjects
ADAPTABILITY (Personality); PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; NATURE &; civilization; BIOTIC communities
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2004, Vol 9, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-00650-090205