Panarchy - Resilience Alliance
One of the major lessons we learn from the unique complexity of life is the following: the only thing we can always expect when manipulating the living world is that there will be unexpected consequences. By definition, those consequences are rarely aligned with the initial goal of our intervention. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and our... See more
Understanding Living Systems
Second Renaissance
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Ecology is fundamentally different to the other sciences in that it describes a scope and an attitude of study, rather than a field. There is an ecology – and ecologists – of mathematics, behaviour, economics, physics, history, art, linguistics, psychology, warfare, and almost any other discipline that you can think of.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Out of that combination came a vision of a number of centers where information and models about resources and the environment are housed. There would need to be many of these centers , all over the world, each one responsible for a discrete bioregion.
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