Assessing Adaptive Capacity

Abstract

In the final chapter of Part III the case evidence is reviewed according to the adaptive capacity indicators and analysed for positive fulfilment of the operationalised criteria. Furthermore, a synthesised review of the correlation between adaptive responses and indicators of adaptive capacity is presented. Results indicate a correlation between more transformative and persistent adaptive actions and the decentralised governance context of the Swiss case. The centralised and yet neo-liberal market model of the Chilean case is dominated by a number of passive actions, which can be seen to correlate with potential longer term degradation of the resilience of the social-ecological system. However, both cases are correlated with a number of persistent adaptive actions.