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Quantifying the Adaptive Cycle [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 The adaptive cycle was proposed as a conceptual model to portray patterns of change in complex systems. Despite the model having potential for elucidating change across systems, it has been used mainly as a metaphor, describing system dynamics qualitatively.
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Land, 2021 The adaptive cycle and panarchy are recognised tools for resilience assessment prior to establishing new management approaches aligned with Anthropocene needs.
Marc Escamilla Nacher +3 more
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Computing the adaptive cycle [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractGunderson’s and Holling’s adaptive cycle metaphor provides a qualitative description of the development of a dynamically evolving complex system. According to the metaphor, a complex system alternately passes through phases of stability and predictability and phases of reorganization and stochasticity.
zu Castell, W., Schrenk, H.
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Urban resilience: an instrument to decode the post-socialist socio-economic and spatial transformations of cities from Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]
Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2021 A widely used concept, urban resilience, cannot remain a metaphor or just a theoretical view on the ability of cities to overcome perturbations, but it also needs to be operationalized and to become a useful tool in deciphering the complex and very ...
Alexandra SANDU +2 more
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Redai dili, 2023 At present, the economy of China is in a new stage, shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development. Accordingly, high-tech industrial development zones (hereinafter referred to as "high-tech zones") have developed as clusters of innovative ...
Tang Chengli +3 more
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Ecological Complexity, 2019 Abstract The adaptive cycle and its extension to panarchy (nested adaptive cycles) has been a useful metaphor and conceptual model for understanding long-term dynamics of change in ecological and social–ecological systems. We argue that adaptive cycles are ubiquitous in complex adaptive systems because they reflect endogenously generated dynamics as ...
Shana M. Sundstrom, Craig R. Allen
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Fourteen propositions for resilience, fourteen years later
Ecology and Society, 2022 In 2006, Walker et al. published an article titled, “A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-ecological Systems.” The article was incorporated into the Ecology and Society special feature, Exploring Resilience
Morgan MathisonSlee +9 more
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Coordinated SSM: An Adaptation of the SSM Learning Cycle [PDF]
Systems, 2021 This paper discusses the coordinated use of the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) learning cycle with additional bodies of knowledge. This approach furthers focused understanding and appreciation for taking action within social systems. Adapting the SSM learning cycle extends the richness of the real-world situation understood from an analytic soft ...
Sadaf Salavati +3 more
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Introduction. Adaptation to the annual cycle [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007 Most large organisms have an annual routine; that is to say they schedule activities in a regular way over the year. Like any behaviour, annual routines can be explained in terms of either their causation or their contribution to reproductive success, that is their evolutionary function ...
McNamara, John M., Houston, Alasdair I.
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From Resilience to Transformation: the Adaptive Cycle in Two Mexican Urban Centers
Ecology and Society, 2011 Climate change is but one expression of the internal contradictions of capitalism that include also economic inequality and political alienation. Seen in this way analysis of human responses to climate change must engage with social relations of power ...
Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete
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