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This note was started on September 08, 2023 Last updated on December 14, 2025

Adaptive cycles in natural systems

The looping of resiliency and adaption

These tools can help us to understand how to transform our systems. They also show up in all aspects of life, such as maintaining 🔮 strength and mobility in the body.

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Random bits on pieces about this

Research paper on the concepts above:

How resilience and innovation cycles function within ecosystems and how they apply to social (complex) systems as well.
- See the paper (Holling, 2001) [3]

Summary on adaptive cycles: IPCC AR6 Report

The IPCC AR6 report has a good summary on adaptive cycle literature in relationship to climate change adaptation (p.174)

“In the transformational adaptation literature, Park et al. (2012) consider incremental and transformational adaptation as two concentric and linked action-learning cycles with similar steps that include monitoring and learning.”

~ IPCC AR6 Report (p.174) [4]

Further insights from my own writings:

–> here, spiritual self-transformation on a personal level might be crucial to induce action and value-emergence conducive to larger concentric ‘action-learning cycles’ - see my notes on self-transformation for EJ 🔮 SPIRIT-TRANSFORMATION and working with ourselves 🔮 SPIRIT-WORK-A

#transformation #adaptation #resiliency #adaptive-cycles ____ Sources

[1] https://verdisgroup.com/leading-through-disruption-lessons-from-living-systems/

[2] https://projectguide.org/the-adaptive-cycle-lead-social-impact-projects/

[3] Holling, C. S. (2001). Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems. Ecosystems, 4(5), 390–405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-001-0101-5

[4] IPCC https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6/wg2/IPCC_AR6_WGII_FullReport.pdf


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