Aim
Develop an approach to resilience that:
- incorporates system elements (regime shifts, feedbacks)
- incorporates individual elements (agency, option, diversity)
- is context-sensitive
- is measurable
Resilience as pathway diversity
Resilience = actors having more pathways available to them Pathway = sequence of options or actions available to actors
Individual focus: options (choices) System focus: consequences of choices on future options Context sensitive: pathways to be assessed case by case
Measurable: count (of pathways); causal entropy (giving weightings to different pathways)
-pathways diversity can be in opposition to stability-based resilience metrics
important considerations
- IMPORTANCE TO TAKE A LONG-TERM HORIZON IN THIS METRIC
- not geared for large systems (economy, ecosystem)
- focused on one actor’s strategyd