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Your Call to Action for the Transformations Community: 

I want to share a couple of observations from my experience working on applied research on resilience thinking as encompassing the related concepts of resilience, adaptation, and transformation that together tell us the nature and extent of change that could or need to happen to achieve valued social-ecological goals. I share these observations to motivate critical reflection and testing. 

1. In our hyperconnected world, traps -mutually reinforcing feedbacks that maintain or drive a social-ecological system towards an undesirable state - are ubiquitous. The study on traps is still in its infancy. I believe it is important to do more research and understand traps to design effective transformation pathways.

2. No more can we design effective interventions to address complex problems of a system of interest without considering how each intervention will contribute to resilience, adaptation, or/and transformation of the system in the face of stresses, shocks, and deep uncertainty about the future.