Key Vocabulary
The preservation of existing systems and ways of being
What is adaptation?
The three building blocks of adaptations and transformation.
Coping, incremental adaptation, and transformation adaptation
What are the key differences between adaptation and transformation?
The first phase of transformation
What are 'triggers' or 'pretransformation'?
The terrain that the village of Laporiyah has
What is flat terrain?
The evaluation of new ways of governing and deep-rooted changes
What is transformation?
The three components of broadening the decision options
Replanting crops is an example of: adaptation or tranformation?
What is adaptation?
The widespread uptake and use of innovation in the 'navigating the transition' phase
What is adoption?
How neighboring villages are connected in Rajasthan, India
What are interconnected water systems?
The act of building shared understanding and the ongoing processes that occur as conditions change
What is the relationship between learning, adaptation, and transformation?
The two pathways related to current decision points when exploring strategies
What are 'more options' and 'loss of options'?
The adaptation that characterized by a high magnitude of human input of climate change response
What is transformative adaptation?
True or false. The implementation of transformational solutions is easy and if successful can strengthen cross-scale relationships which can allow it to develop into new contexts.
False. The solutions are not easy as the conversation of stakeholders includes varying perspectives and oftentimes includes tension. However, tension is what allows stakeholders to collaborate and find a potential medium.
The use of pits to make compartments that are filled with stormwater runoff which seeps into the ground to recharge the aquifer and leaves soil moist for grazing
What is the Chauka System?
True or false. Both systems at their respective 'ends' are still actively dynamic.
True. Both systems are ongoing systems that learn to change and implement new conditions or methods as external factors change.
This similarity involves not knowing what the future holds and can create tensions in the decision making of stakeholders.
What is 'socio-ecological uncertainties'?
The diversification of possibilities (such as advocating for aquaculture rather than banning fishing methods) is apart of this adaptation method.
What is incremental adaptation?
This phase involves finding dynamic stability and implementing feedback. It works to deal with the uncertainty and embraces active resistance.
What is 'institutionalizing the new trajectory'?
Agriculture development, groundwater retention, population growth, and drought management
What are the benefits of Laporiyah's water havesting?