idea Owners
According to Schwandt et al. (2016). projects are engineering challenges that can be controlled and managed, as schemes to be applied and monitored via indicators and checklists, rather than as innovations to be questioned. To elicit the events, deal with the consequences and contribute for change (potential outputs), all dimensions of being in the world should be considered, as they combine to induce the events (deficits/assets), cope with consequences (desired/undesired) and contribute for changes (potential outputs). Trying to solve isolated and localized problems, without addressing the general phenomenon (which has the conditions to solve specific problems), is a conceptual error; in this sense, a theoretical and practical ecosystemic framework is posited for in public policies, research and teaching programmes, encompassing the four dimensions of being in the world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. In the socio-cultural leaning niches, an ongoing process of viewing the world, of critical reflection on, and appraisal of, assumptions and claims, coupled with a commitment to continuous learning and a willingness and ability to modify views in light of reasoned arguments and evidence, is posited. Ref.: PILON, A. F., Developing an Ecosystemic Approach to Live Better in a Better World: A Global Voice for Humanity Survival in the 21st Century, Herald of the International Academy of Science (Health & Ecology), Moscow, 1, 2014: 12-15 [on line]: http://www.heraldrsias.ru/download/articles/02_Pilon.pdf
In the ecosystemic approach, public policies, research and teaching programmes:
1) define the problems in the core of the “boiling pot” in view of a holistic, ecosystemic framework, instead of reducing them to the bubbles of the surface (effects, fragmented, taken for granted issues);
2) combine the four dimensions of being in the world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical) in the diagnosis and prognosis of the events, assessing their deficits and assets, as donors and recipients;
3) promote the singularity of (identity, proper characteristics) and the reciprocity (mutual support) between all dimensions of being in the world in view of their complementarity and dynamic equilibrium;
4) elicit new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions.
5) prepare the transition to an ecosystemic model of culture, as an essential condition for consistency, effectiveness and endurance.
Instead of dealing with the “bubbles” (segmented, reduced programmes in public policies, mass media and academic formats) and trying to solve isolated and localized issues, problems are defined and dealt with deep inside the “boiling pot”, where they emerge, encompassing the current “world-system” with its boundaries, structures, techno-economic paradigms, support groups, rules of legitimation, and coherence.
Ref.: PILON, A. F., A Global Voice for Survival: An Ecosystemic Approach for the Environment and the Quality of Life, University Library of Munich, MPRA Paper No. 74918, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29906.96960 [online]:
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/74918/1/MPRA_paper_74918.pdf
- Optional: upload extended description of the idea in PDF (upload functionality)
Comments
The comments are closed.