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Systemic Management - Sustainable Human Interactions with Ecosystems and the Biosphere (Hardcover)
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Systemic Management - Sustainable Human Interactions with Ecosystems and the Biosphere (Hardcover)
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'Systemic management' describes a holistic, objective and
universally applicable form of management, providing a framework
for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming,
emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction
crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction. Its goals
are the consistently sustainable relationships between humans and
ecosystems, between humans and other species, and between humans
and the biosphere. This book presents a convincing argument that
these goals, and the means to achieve them, can be inferred from
empirical information. It describes how comparisons between humans
and other species reveal patterns that can serve to guide
management toward true sustainability i.e. ways that are
empirically observed to work in natural systems. This objective
approach has rarely been possible in conventional management
because sustainability is invariably undermined by conflicting
human values.
'Systemic management' is presented as a specialized process of
pattern-based decision-making that avoids the inconsistency,
subjectivity and error in current management practice. It clearly
demonstrates how mimicking nature's empirical examples of
sustainability can circumvent anthropocentric tendencies to
overuse/misuse human values in management, and illustrates the
science best suited for achieving sustainability through examples
of research that address specific management questions.
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