Cross-Cutting Enablers

Cross-Cutting Enablers

In each societal dimension, there is a relationship between resilience and adaptive capacity—the ability of systems, institutions, organizations, and people to adapt to potential damage or disruption, take advantage of opportunities, or respond to consequences. Adaptive capacity is typically discussed in terms of adaptive development—the activities and actions required to establish and foster adaptation—and adaptive assessment—the activities and actions required to evaluate, learn from, and inform improvements to adaptive capacity. These concepts informed the identification of six crosscutting enablers identified for the Grand Pathways Framework. These are the enabling resources and capabilities that build towards the end states of a resilient community. They are the physical, financial, and other resources that are essential to the function and improvement of communities, and the ability of these cross-cutting enablers to withstand acute shocks and chronic stresses are a focus of resilience investments, including resilience science and technology.