A Resilience Framework for Evaluating Adaptive Allocation in Information Resources: an Ecology View
Adaptive allocation brings adaptive approaches in pursuit of sustainable social resource use and social-ecological information resilience. However, a lack of evidence from consistent evaluation of adaptive allocation exacerbates the doubt of this allocation. This paper revisits the issue of evaluation in information resource allocation and recasts it in light of complex adaptive systems thinking. An evaluative framework for adaptive allocation is developed which directs attention toward four broad components: society ecosystem conditions, information ecosystem conditions, ecological sustainability and process. Scale-specific parameters are offered for each component to facilitate systematic learning from experience and encourage comparisons. Conclusions highlight the importance of systematically incorporating evaluation into the adaptive allocation process and recognize the challenge for information resource agencies and researchers to shift from a conventional to a complex adaptive system perspective.
information resources Adaptive allocation Evaluation Resilience Complex adaptive system
Zheng lu Le zhongJian
School of information technology Jiangxi University of finance and economics Nanchang, China China t School of information technology Jiangxi University of finance and economics Nanchang, China
国际会议
成都
英文
344-347
2010-07-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）