New Systems Research Book from Springer
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Read moreISSS 2016 Realizing Sustainable Futures
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There are at least three ways of knowing. Through lived experience that is captured in cultural and somatic knowledge; Through deep introspection that can reveal evolutionary knowledge; And through the intellect, which we have formalized into scientific methods relying on principles of logic and philosophical concepts of existence and attainable knowledge. In this third category there can be many modes of intellectual discovery of outer worlds and construction from inner worlds. In an era when our own influence on nature was small, we could get away with studying it as an external world. But now that our influence is large, and cyclical, we must also study it as an experiential world, one that has broken free of universal laws to follow embodied laws that lead to complex social and cognitive interactions. As systems scientists we must embrace both domains and find ways of unifying them, or relating them in their own complex webs.
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Read moreLast Fall Semester I led a small Graduate Seminar on Socio-Ecological Sustainability Leadership (SESL), as a pilot class for a possible Graduate Certificate Program with Partners in India. We explored the four quadrant framework adopted at IFSR last Spring, which turns out to be very much like a Participatory Action Research cycle and (more…)
Read moreThe 2014 IFSR “Conversation” proceedings are now published. I’ve added the report to the Download page and you can also view it here. In particular we should consider the Team 6 “System Research” section as that ended up containing many ideas Judith and I would like to follow up in ISSS (more…)
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