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]
See also:
- Adaptability is the capacity of actors to manage the resilience of a system
- Overton Window is a range of possibilities
Resilience Thinking – Walker and Salt (2012), ch. 3, § “Slow Variables.” ↩︎