ABSTRACT
The IPCC definition of resilience, presented above, is forward looking, placing emphasis on capacities rather than outcomes of self-organisation and social learning. Within this, adaptation is positioned as a sub-set of resilience (along with functional persistence and self-organisation). Following from this definition, the framework suggested uses the idea of resilience to capture the first kind of adaptation to be discussed in detail in this book. In our use, adaptation as resilience is a form that seeks to secure the continuation of desired systems functions into the future in the face of changing context, through enabling alteration in institutions and organisational form.
