{
  "framework": "Civilization Science Framework 1.0",
  "academic_revision": "1.2",
  "modified": "2026-08-03",
  "language": "en",
  "authority": "Authoritative English record",
  "conforms_to": "https://civilizationsci.org/framework/framework-schema.json",
  "variables": [
    {
      "symbol": "C",
      "name": "Cooperation capacity",
      "operational_definition": "Latent capacity for coordinated action across relevant actors under declared conditions.",
      "scale": "[0,1] after measurement linking",
      "candidate_observations": "Behavioral cooperation, network reciprocity, agreement performance, collective-action completion.",
      "known_risks": "Strategic reporting, forced compliance, aggregation bias, construct drift.",
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "symbol": "L_e",
      "name": "Effective legitimacy and trust",
      "operational_definition": "Operational confidence that rules, institutions, and counterparties are acceptable and dependable enough for cooperation.",
      "scale": "[0,1] after measurement linking",
      "candidate_observations": "Institutional trust surveys, compliance with exit options, dispute resolution, procedural acceptance.",
      "known_risks": "Preference falsification, coercion, cultural non-equivalence, response bias.",
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "symbol": "E_n",
      "name": "Effective input",
      "operational_definition": "Accessible energy, information, material, organizational, and computational resources converted into system-relevant capacity.",
      "scale": "Positive ratio or indexed quantity",
      "candidate_observations": "Net energy, infrastructure throughput, information access, logistics, compute, organizational capacity.",
      "known_risks": "Double counting, quality differences, inaccessible reserves, rebound effects.",
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "symbol": "E",
      "name": "Entropy and dissipation burden",
      "operational_definition": "Loss, disorder, friction, degradation, conflict, coordination cost, and irreversible dissipation relevant to the modeled system.",
      "scale": "Strictly positive indexed quantity",
      "candidate_observations": "Waste, loss, conflict, delay, institutional friction, network fragmentation, ecological degradation.",
      "known_risks": "Near-zero denominator, heterogeneous processes, moralized interpretation, omitted externalities.",
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "symbol": "S_tilde",
      "name": "Raw stability-capacity index",
      "operational_definition": "Unbounded intermediate score produced by the declared measurement relation before the link function.",
      "scale": "Real number; not a final capacity score",
      "candidate_observations": "Computed from C, L_e, E_n, E and declared parameters.",
      "known_risks": "Arbitrary magnitude near small E, scale dependence, false precision.",
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "symbol": "S",
      "name": "Bounded civilizational stability capacity",
      "operational_definition": "A declared bounded transformation of the raw index for a specified system, scale, horizon, and model version.",
      "scale": "(0,1), or another declared bounded range",
      "candidate_observations": "Logistic or other monotone squashing of S_tilde, calibrated against registered outcomes.",
      "known_risks": "Link-function dependence, calibration error, non-causal use, normative overreach.",
      "status": "proposed"
    }
  ]
}