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Tag Archives: Socio-Ecological Systems
Integrated Agro-ecological Systems Land Use vs the ‘dis-integrated’ industrial machine
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
Posted in agricultural strategy, Environmental Philosophy, Industrial Mindset, Land Use, Land use policy, Thought Pieces, Ways of Seeing
Tagged agricultural strategy, Commoditisation, Complex Adaptive Systems, Culture-Nature, Economics of Natural Systems, Land use policy, Land use strategy, Managing Complexity, Mechanistic Worldview, Resilience theory, Socio-Ecological Systems, Strategy Vs Technocrats, Sustainable Land Management, Technology Treadmill
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Reframing our Water as a Commons
This article was published in the Hawke’s Bay Today following the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s (HBRC) decision to allow an overseas water bottling plant to take water from the high quality aquifer that lies beneath the cities of Hasting and Napier. … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use, Socio-ecological Systems, Thought Pieces, Wicked Problems
Tagged Alternative Vision, Better economics, Common Pool Resources, Commons, Culture-Nature, Development, Environmental Ethics, HBRC, Heretaunga Aquifer, Neo-liberal Economics, Privatisation of the Commons, Privatisation of Water, Socio-Ecological Systems, Water Rights
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Resilience Principles: Managing for an Uncertain Future
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
Posted in Building Regional Economies, Resilience Thinking, Thought Pieces
Tagged Adaptability, Adaptive Capacity, Ball in a Bowl, Complex Adaptive Systems, future generations, Managing Complexity, Resilience Principles, Socio-Ecological Systems, System Shifts, Thresholds, uncertain future
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