Benefits of Adaptive Capacity
Adaptive capacity confers resilience to perturbation, giving ecological and human social systems the ability to reconfigure themselves with minimum loss of function.
- In ecological systems, this resilience shows as net primary productivity and maintenance of biomass and biodiversity, and the stability of hydrological cycles.
- In human social systems it is demonstrated by the stability of social relations, the maintenance of social capital and economic prosperity.
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