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Civic Ecology: Living Community Systems For Sustainability, Tim Smith
Civic Ecology: Living Community Systems For Sustainability, Tim Smith
Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series
Civic Ecology is a stakeholder-driven, whole systems framework for creating sustainable communities. The framework focuses on empowering citizens of all ages, cultures, and abilities to envision, create, and manage their community’s unique “software” -- the integrated energy, nutrient, water, waste, material, and food systems, as well as economic flows and cultural interactions that animate their place. Exploring and supporting these flows allows communities to enhance their local wealth (environmental, economic, and social), resilience, and competitiveness, and help them take control of designing and managing their future through collaboration and innovation. The Civic Ecology framework can be the foundation upon which …
Ecosystem Services: The Making Of A Metaphor We Live (?) By, Richard B. Norgaard
Ecosystem Services: The Making Of A Metaphor We Live (?) By, Richard B. Norgaard
Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series
What started as a humble metaphor to help us think about our relation to nature has become integral to how we are addressing the future of humanity and the course of biological evolution. The metaphor of nature as a stock that provides a flow of services is insufficient for the difficulties we are in or the task ahead. Indeed, combined with the mistaken presumption that we can analyze a global problem within a partial equilibrium economic framework and reach a new economy project-by-project without major institutional change, the simplicity of the stock-flow framework blinds us to the complexity of the …
Future Sustainability For The Uahuntsville Campus An Analysis Of 'Green' Intiatives And Their Benefits, Tiffany Webb
Future Sustainability For The Uahuntsville Campus An Analysis Of 'Green' Intiatives And Their Benefits, Tiffany Webb
Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)
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