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Sustainability Science

Sustainability Science. BIO AC Meeting 19 April 2007. Robustness. Evolvability. J. Cancalosi. How do biological systems create, test and maintain adaptive capacity?. Critical thresholds. State changes. Cross-scale feedbacks. Lags and inertia. biology. Sustainability Science.

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Sustainability Science

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  1. Sustainability Science BIO AC Meeting 19 April 2007 Robustness Evolvability J. Cancalosi How do biological systems create, test and maintain adaptive capacity? Critical thresholds State changes Cross-scale feedbacks Lags and inertia biology

  2. Sustainability Science American Chestnut How do slowly changing variables interact with boundary conditions and variables that change on faster time scales? Discontinuity Nonlinearity Mississippi River and Missouri River from Space - NASA Abrupt change Forecasting + humans

  3. Sustainability Science Precariousness How do latitude, resistance and precariousness of a system affect resilience? how close the current state of the system is to a limit or threshold supanet.com Keeling CO2 curve Latitude Resistance the maximum amount a system can be changed before losing its ability to recover the ease or difficulty of changing the system complex systems

  4. Sustainability Science Adaptation Transformation How do the actors in a system influence resilience and robustness? What governs buffering capacity --- the ability to absorb stress and shock without fundamental change? How is novelty admitted to a system? What governs evolvability --- the ability of a system to move in a fundamentally different trajectory?

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