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Adaptive Capacity and Traps [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2008 Adaptive capacity is the ability of a living system, such as a social-ecological system, to adjust responses to changing internal demands and external drivers.
Stephen R. Carpenter, William A. Brock
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The Capacity of Adaptive Group Testing [PDF]
2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2013 We define capacity for group testing problems and deduce bounds for the capacity of a variety of noisy models, based on the capacity of equivalent noisy communication channels.
Aldridge, Matthew +2 more
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Socio-demographic, institutional and governance factors influencing adaptive capacity of smallholder irrigators in Zimbabwe. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The provision of resilience and adaptation to climate change to smallholder irrigation communities is a critical component in implementing common pool resource management.
Liboster Mwadzingeni +2 more
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No size fits all – a qualitative study of factors that enable adaptive capacity in diverse hospital teams [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionResilient healthcare research studies how healthcare systems and stakeholders adapt and cope with challenges and changes to enable high quality care.
Birte Fagerdal +4 more
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Adaptive Leaders Building Collective Adaptive Capacity and Capabilities
Asia Pacific Journal of Health ManagementAdaptive leadership is a relational and systemic approach to leading that emphasises continuous capacity to sense, interpret and respond to evolving challenges within complex and uncertain environments.
Mark Avery
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Atmosphere, 2022 Assessing adaptive capacity to climate change is a complex task since it is a multidimensional component. There has been considerable discrepancy between the dimensions or elements that compose it.
María de Lourdes Maldonado-Méndez +2 more
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Environmental Challenges, 2022 The Indian agricultural sector is highly vulnerable to climate change. Hence, the adoption of appropriate adaptation measures by the farmers is crucial for reducing the adverse effects, and it is expected that farmers with higher adaptive capacity would ...
Pritha Datta, Bhagirath Behera
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Adaptive capacity in emergency food distribution
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022 The unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses in our emergency food distribution programs and also highlighted the importance of the adaptive capacity that is actively fostered within such programs.
Heide Bruckner, Sophie Dasaro
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Climate Risk Management, 2023 Adaptive capacity provides a pivotal role in resilience building for socio-ecological systems to overcome both natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
James Mbaziira +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Adaptive capacity, one of the three determinants of vulnerability to climate change, is defined as the capacity of species to persist in their current location by coping with novel environmental conditions through acclimation and/or evolution.
Samuel Royer‐Tardif +4 more
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