Transformability is the capacity to create a new system

When a system is locked up and Adaptability is below the level needed to change it, actors may need to create a new system.

Transformability is the capacity to create a fundamentally new system when ecological, social, economic, and political conditions make the existing system untenable.[1]


#systems #resilience

See also:


  1. Resilience Thinking – Walker and Salt (2012), ch. 3, § “Slow Variables.” ↩︎