Complex Creative Systems: Principles, processes, and practices of transformation

TL;DR: A Brazilian case study (PISA) is briefly described to illustrate how grazing behavior research can reach farmers and change their lives by using simple management strategies (“take the best and leave the rest” rule) supported by reductionist approaches applied in holistic frameworks.

TL;DR: Adaptive multi-paddock grazing management is an example of an approach for grazinglands as mentioned in this paper, which can indicate how to regenerate ecosystem function on commercial-scale agro-ecological landscapes.

TL;DR: A review of interoperable standards in extensive livestock farming systems concludes that there is a need for not only a new type of decision support tool, but also a consensus on data exchange standards to prove the value of shared data at farm scale and a regional scale.

TL;DR: In this article, a more holistic approach to manage grazing based on recent advances in the understanding of the nutritional ecology of grazing animals is proposed, and management practices that may enable pastoral livestock-production systems to evolve continually as complex creative systems.

TL;DR: A conceptual model of the evolution of plant defense is concluded, in which plant physioligical trade-offs interact with the abiotic environment, competition and herbivory.

TL;DR: The authors examines theories (models) of how systems (those of humans, nature, and combined humannatural systems) function, and attempts to understand those theories and how they can help researchers develop effective institutions and policies for environmental management.

Abstract: PETER M. SENGE is the founding chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning and a senior lecturer at MIT. He is the co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and Schools That Learn (part of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series) and has lectured extensively throughout the world. Understanding the principles of learning organizations will drive us in building effective organizational climate. The Fifth Discipline helps us in knowing how we can effectively modify the fundamental assumptions, the values, norms and some patterns of human behavior. The aim of this review is not to oppose Senge’s fundamental ideas but to insist on how significant his insights are. The book has five parts. Part I concentrates on “How our actions create our reality...and how we can change it”. Part II focus on “The Fifth Discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization”. Part III puts across “The core disciplines: building the learning organization”, whereas the IV Part focuses on “Prototypes”. The book concludes with a logical flow of “Coda” (a conclusion).