# Equitable Resource Allocation **Domain:** Economics / Justice / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Mechanism Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Equitable resource allocation** distributes resources with explicit attention to need, inherited structural load, historical responsibility, adaptive contribution, minimum capability and meaningful participation rather than relying solely on purchasing power or aggregate efficiency. Equity is not identical treatment. It seeks to prevent formally neutral rules from reproducing unequal starting conditions or transferring systemic risk onto those least able to absorb it. ## Climate Context The climate corpus contrasts two uses of the same exposure model. [[wiki/Climate Meritocracy|Climate Meritocracy]] raises the cost of remaining in a vulnerable place. [[wiki/Corrective Intelligence|Corrective Intelligence]] uses exposure to trigger investment, protection and repair. [[articles/Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems|Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems]] requires provenance, community authority, appealability and auditable delivery so that equity does not remain a label detached from outcomes. ## Constitutional Boundary Equity calculations must not totalize persons or assign inherited guilt. [[wiki/Score Separability|Score Separability]], [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]], [[wiki/Fiduciary Governance|Fiduciary Governance]] and rights floors protect against corrective systems becoming coercive classification systems. ## Key Insight **Equity changes the allocation surface so capability can emerge; it does not convert dignity into a variable that may be optimized away.** ## See Also [[wiki/Reparative Equity|Reparative Equity]], [[wiki/Reparative Justice|Reparative Justice]], [[wiki/Historical Responsibility|Historical Responsibility]], [[wiki/Human Resilience|Human Resilience]], [[wiki/Resource Allocation|Resource Allocation]]