Panarchy: a scale-linking perspective of systemic transformation

8. How can principles learned from living systems inform our approach to solving contemporary societal crises, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and lack of sustainability?

Two aspects are central to our move from dominion to stewardship :

1. We must pay close attention to the rates of change in our social-ecological system.

2. We must shift... See more

Time matters in human systems. The patterns we can observe today were shaped by the initial starting conditions of the system and many years of evolutionary change. This means that while complex systems are inherently unpredictable and non-causal, they have dispositional states i.e., they are predisposed towards certain behaviors. If we understand

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