“…Our research builds on work that has applied complex systems thinking to resilience and to fostering adaptive capacity, social learning, and especially social innovation within complex socialecological systems (Gunderson et al 1995, Berkes and Folke 1998, Kay et al 1999, Gunderson and Holling 2002, Berkes et al 2003, Waltner-Toews et al 2004, Armitage 2005, Walker and Salt 2006, Westley et al 2006, Biggs et al 2010, Westley and Antadze 2010, McCarthy et al 2011. Social innovation refers to new concepts, strategies, initiatives, products, services, processes, or organizations that meet pressing social needs and profoundly change the basic routines, resource and authority flows, or values and beliefs within the social system in which they arise (Westley et al 2006, Mulgan et al 2007, Biggs et al 2010.…”