The selection of recovery strategies is often based only on the types and circumstances of the failures. However, also changes in the environment such as fewer resources at node levels or degradation of quality-of-service should be considered before allocating a new process/task to another host or before taking reconfiguration decisions. In this paper we present why and how resource availability information should be considered for recovery strategies adaptation. Such resource aware run-time adaptation of recovery improves the availability and survivability of a system.