SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY IN AN AGE OF COMPLEXITY GRAHAM HARRIS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART II Chapter 2: Complexity and Complex Systems Chapter 3: New Science, New Tools, New Challenges Chapter 4: The Complexity of Ecology Chapter 5: The Generation of Complexity Chapter 6: Micro-interactions and Macro-constraints Chapter 7: A sense of Place Chapter 8: Created …
Book review In Seeking Sustainability in an Age of Complexity Graham Harris explains why sustainability is hard and why ‘collapse’ can occur. In the last 20 years the theory of complexity has been developed – complex systems science (CSS) speaks to natural systems and particularly to ecological, social and economic systems and their interaction. Due …
Book review INSIDE DRUCKER’S BRAIN JEFFREY A. KRAMES Portfolio 2008 Introduction: In Search of Drucker Although Drucker had written three dozen books on business and society, I thought a definitive book on Drucker had not yet been written; one that would showcase his most important management philosophies and signature strategies, and how they are as …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART III Chapter Two: The Spread of Economic Prosperity The move from universal poverty to varying degrees of prosperity has happened rapidly in the span of human history. Life was as difficult in much of …
Book review In Part 6 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Poor countries are hopelessly trapped. The World Trade Organisation which is supposed to provide a level playing field for all is in reality controlled by the richest governments which in turn are beholden to corporates. On the other hand, if …
Book review In Part 5 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Economic growth – rise in GDP – has become the prime index not simply of “progress” but of “development”: an even grander concept. Traditional farms do not make as much money as factories and call-centres and sweatshops may do and …
SEKEM A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT IBRAHIM ABOULEISH FLORIS BOOKS 2004 PART II Chapter 2: Return to Egypt (Cont.) My heart tries to understand I continued to work with anthroposophy and became acquainted with its practical applications in many areas of life. I repeatedly found life changing solutions presenting themselves after intense …
In Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert by Ibrahim Abouleish, we learn that: In 1977 the Sekem initiative was established with the setting up of agriculture, and over the years there followed commercial businesses, education centres and medical centres to complete the venture. Now Sekem has spread throughout Egypt. Many people, hearing about …
Book review In Part 4 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “No society throughout history has regarded its agriculture simply as a business. Always people at large and the powers-that-be have felt that farming is in various ways special.” “Although farmers have commonly worked within a general atmosphere of free trade, …
Book review In Part 3 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Industrialized farming makes maximum use of mechanical power and industrial chemistry; and although industrial farming is the Johnny-come-lately, it is already commonly called ‘conventional farming’. It is conventional only insofar as it makes use of western methods, and is geared …
