Social memory and general resilience
- Variable relationship:
Reserves "of organisms, knowledge or skills" contribute to recovery from disturbance (Carpenter et al. 2012). Reserves represent the ecological (Actor Scientific Knowledge) and social memory (Actor Traditional Knowledge) that promotes recovery, adaptation (Actor Adaptative Capacity) and resilience (Ecological Resilience) to maintain the existing system configuration (Basin Switch).
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Variables
| Variable | Role | Role Explanation | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actor scientific knowledge | Underlying independent variable | Scientific knowledge of the common denotes some social and institutional memory which contributes to actor adaptive capacity. | Medium or High |
| Actor traditional knowledge | Underlying independent variable | Traditional knowledge of the common denotes some social and institutional memory which contributes to actor adaptive capacity. | Medium or High |
| Actor adaptive capacity | Proximate independent variable | Social memory of past variability and perturbation, denoted by high levels of scientific and traditional knowledge, increases resource users' and managers capacities to adapt, manage and maintain the ecological resilience of their system | Medium or High |
| Ecological resilience | Intermediate outcome | Higher levels of actor adaptive capacity increases the potential of resource users' and managers to respond to uncertainty and perturbation, and thereby to maintain or enhance the ecological resilience of the system. | Moderately to highly resilient |
| Basin switch | Final outcome | Higher ecological resilience means the defined commons is better able to buffer, recover and adapt to disturbance events, thus remaining in a desirable stable state. | No desirable |
Related Theories
| Theory | Relationship | Characterizing Variables |
|---|---|---|
| Conditions for general resilience | nested |
Related Studies
| Study | Relationship |
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Carpenter, Stephen R., et al., 2012. General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events. Sustainability 4 (12): 3248-3259 | describe |