Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Knowing Systems and the Environment 35 positions as both rational beings and as the ‘moral animals’ that we claim to be (Wright, ...

36 Ethics and Systems Thinking or has to drive to the shops in the mall or to the school in the suburbs or to church on the Sabb ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 37 focusing so attentively on knowing systems ‘out there’ we scientists have come to ignore ...

38 Ethics and Systems Thinking of the systemist – where systemists are to systems as economists are to economies is both the ‘i ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 39 and functional nature of ecosystems in equilibrium was later replaced by the more cyberne ...

40 Ethics and Systems Thinking affairs over many decades past, in the search for knowledge about the nature of ‘human systems’. ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 41 Knowing Systems A useful way of exploring the notion, nature, development and significanc ...

42 Ethics and Systems Thinking this day, but has been further compounded by the subsequent introduction of a third ‘critical’ wa ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 43 evidently bounded ‘ecosystems’ in the form of the higher order ‘biotic communi- ties’, as ...

44 Ethics and Systems Thinking evolved ‘not simply in response to damaging impacts of specific industrial and social practices, ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 45 well as to the epistemic aspects of all that, as a knowing system, it is trying to accomp ...

46 Ethics and Systems Thinking focus on ‘changing frames’ or – ‘meaning perspectives’ as Mezirow (1991) calls them – is directly ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 47 A similar claim has been made for the synergy between the ‘experiential know- ing’ proces ...

48 Ethics and Systems Thinking manner it is possible to understand and present the ‘environmental concern’ as either a concern o ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 49 Davison, A. (2001) Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability. State Univers ...

50 Ethics and Systems Thinking Leopold, A. (1949) A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, Ox ...

Knowing Systems and the Environment 51 Wright, R. (1994) The Moral Animal. Why we are the Way we are: The New Science of Evoluti ...

4 Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not Paul B. Thompson Philosophers spend a large part of their time scru ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 53 means to be sustainable has multiplied since the early 1980s, when ...

54 Ethics and Systems Thinking farmers, peasants or the capitalist system in more direct and conventional language. However, I d ...