Community adaptations to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability depend on adaptability, which is constituted by how power shapes collective mobilization of differential capacities across scales and levels of governance systems. A multidimensional power framework (MPF) to track the role of power in adaptability is presented and applied in a qualitative, comparative case study of two historical fishing communities in the United States. The MPF conceptualizes power as differential capacities at the individual and group levels, structural at the policy level, and systemic, reflective of generalized norms, strategies, and technologies of political economic imperatives. The first case, Two Rivers, North Carolina represents an example of collective action failure resulting in transformation to a new resilience regime consisting of fundamentally altered community functions, structures, and identity. The second case, Delcambre, Louisiana represents collective action success; community adaptations resulted in continuity in change for fisher livelihoods. Success here is defined as the ability to maintain a semblance of structure, function, or identity of the original resilience regime without connotations of positive or negative desirability. The cases were similar in demographics, vulnerabilities, and differential capacities. Key differences existed in systemic political economic imperatives, structural power at the policy level, and the ways closure, the ability to enforce a common sense of place within the communities reflected systemic power. The utility of the MPF is mapping vulnerabilities and differential capacities against broader structures and systemic processes to inform effective mobilization for improved socio-ecological resilience and sustainability.

社区适应能力的增强取决于适应能力，适应能力的提高取决于权力的形成方式，这些能力如何影响治理系统各个规模和层次上的不同能力的集体动员。提出了一个多维权力框架（MPF），用于跟踪权力在适应性中的作用，并将其应用于美国两个历史捕捞社区的定性，比较案例研究中。强积金将权力概念化为个人和团体级别的差异能力，政策级别的结构性，系统性的，反映政治经济学必要性的一般性规范，策略和技术。第一种情况，两条河流 北卡罗来纳州代表了集体行动失败的一个示例，该集体行动失败导致了向新的应变机制的转变，该机制包括从根本上改变的社区职能，结构和身份。第二个案例是路易斯安那州的德尔坎布雷，代表集体行动的成功。社区的适应导致了渔民生计变化的连续性。这里的成功被定义为保持原始弹性体系的结构，功能或特性的相似性而没有正面或负面期望的涵义的能力。这些案例在人口统计，脆弱性和能力差异方面相似。在系统性政治经济命令，政策一级的结构力量以及关闭方式方面存在主要差异，在社区中增强对地方的常识的能力反映了系统的力量。强积金的用途是将脆弱性和差异能力与更广泛的结构和系统过程相对应，以指导有效动员，以提高社会生态适应力和可持续性。