Glossaries

Capacity:

In terms of community, a capacity could mean the following: the size like population, area or employment rate and the number of types of social services like education, medical care, or services for the social vulnerable, etc. The capacity could be defined as comprehensive fundamentals that the community can gain. In short, the capacity can be a measure that indicates how people in the community are protected or how much they can enjoy supports by the community. More the size of the capacity, more people in the community could be satisfied with living in the community.

Adaptive Ability:

We need adaptive abilities when we live in human societies. An adaptive ability means how much or fast you can adjust communities. As societies become industrialized, many people get to move their community to another one. When people get into new community, they have to adjust it to live there successfully. If they try not to adjust new community, people already living there would not want to accept these strangers. In order to adjust new community, you would need to obey rules of the community.

Capital:

Capital is goods that the community has: human, lands, natural resources, factories, etc. In short, capitals are factors that can develop the community or improve living standards in the community. Generally, capitals exist naturally in the community, for example, land and natural resources. However, we can produce or improve some capitals like factories and human capitals. Also, we can buy or sell our capitals to other communities. For example, we can import or export natural resources like oil or gas. Human capital is also able to be “transacted”. People want to move places that they can get higher education, good pays, or good social services. These factors can be defined as capacities mentioned above. That is to say, the community can get skilled human capital with its capacities. Thus, capacities are highly related to capitals.