Essay On Social Ecological Resilience

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Adaptive capacity involves nested institutions that share power and collaborate with each other. Each level is autonomous and self-sustaining (Folke et al. 2005; Folke 2006). Resilience concerns the capacity of a system to maintain its function in the face of disturbance (Walter and Salt. 2006). In social system, resilience is enhanced by social capital, which has trust as a central element (Folke, 2006). Transformability refers to the capacity of a SES to shift to a new state when conditions change (Olsson et al, 2014).

According to Holling 1973; Folke et al. 2005 social ecological resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to withstand disturbances as well as to re-organise in face of uncertainty and greater change, while maintaining the same identity. In the ecological arena, resilience is mainly used related to slowly changing variables such as water level, structures, levels of nutrients, among others. …show more content…

In this sense, the ecological resilience is, closely linked to the human social sphere, while supporting a resilient ecological system is a function of successful ecosystem management (Folcke, 2006; Hahn et al. 2006). The resilience in a social-ecological system is for that reason determined by both the ecological buffer capacity, and the adaptive capacity of human communities. The latter is known as adaptability (Walker et al 2006, Wilkison 2012) and means to respond and shape external shocks so as to sustain the necessary ecosystem goods and

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