Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory, Research and Practice

52 Class 3: Systemic-heuristic definition Some scholars have worked on the presuppositions of the concept of resilience, which include a heuristic for the dynamics of productive, self-organized systems, the “panarchy.” This metamodel (Cumming and Collier 2005) of ecosystem dynamics consists of four-phase Table 1. Ten definitions of resilience with respect to the degree of normativity.