Adaptive Capacity
Channel: Systems Innovation
Date: 21/02/2016

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In this video we will be talking about adaptive capacity and resiliency, the capacity of a socio-ecological system to maintain functionality given some alteration. We talk about the two fundamentally different strategies for achieving this, resistance and adaption. Where resistance involves trying to prevent any alteration to the system by controlling the environment and reducing the input values to the system thus enabling it to function optimally by reducing disturbances. Whereas we talk about adaptation as involving the maintenance of diversity so as to be able to generate the appropriate response required to counterbalance the disturbance, thus managing to maintain functionality. We then talk about the adaptive cycle as a model to the process of change within complex adaptive systems as it describes four different regimes of exploitation, conservation, release and reorganization, through which the system can evolve.

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