Tag Archives: Complex Adaptive Systems

Integrated Agro-ecological Systems Land Use vs the ‘dis-integrated’ industrial machine

Posted on December 3, 2021 by cjkperley

There is a difference in kind between complex, integrated, low input, free range systems of land, soil, organic matter, fungi & macroinvertebrates, plants & animals, and …. ….. industrial high energy input feedlot systems which abuse each of those – … Continue reading →

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Putting Culture back into Nature

Posted on June 16, 2016 by cjkperley

We have spread across and changed our world. Change is the constant. But it is maintaining the integrity of our systems that is more important than whether there is any particular ‘natural state’. Continue reading →

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Nature and Corporate Neoliberal Economics in Conflict

Posted on April 30, 2016 by cjkperley

The laws of nature and the laws of corporate-based neoliberal economics are in conflict. Continue reading →

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Seeing the World System of Weeds – Or – Do Androids dream of Intelligent Sheep? A Compleat Ramble

Posted on June 10, 2015 by cjkperley

An anecdote about our research focus on ‘weeds’.  I was a little mischievously provocative about our ‘weed’ research at Otago University.  I remembered an Aldo Leopold article in one of my books of his essays (no, I can’t be bothered … Continue reading →

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Managing Complexity and Uncertainty in Natural and Socio-Ecological Systems

Posted on March 20, 2015 by cjkperley

I wrote most of this as an internal document for a Regional Council in 2009 when it was apparent that both the internal management style and the approach to the wider natural systems and communities was not conducive to long … Continue reading →

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Resilience Principles: Managing for an Uncertain Future

Posted on March 4, 2015 by cjkperley

Below are three sets of principles for dealing with an uncertain world.  Updated. First, there has to be recognition that the world is complex and uncertain! G D Peterson’s schema is I think best at visualising that point (see below).  … Continue reading →

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