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Re: [permaculture] [SANET-MG] Re: SARE Systems Research Handbook: Innovative Solutions to Complex Challenges
- From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] [SANET-MG] Re: SARE Systems Research Handbook: Innovative Solutions to Complex Challenges
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:27:24 -0500
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Karl S North <knorth@binghamton.edu>
> Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] Re: Fwd: SARE Systems Research Handbook:
> Innovative Solutions to Complex Challenges
> To: sanet-mg@googlegroups.com
>
>
> SARE's groundbreaking *Systems Research for Agriculture
>> <http://list.mlgnserv.com/track/click?u=7374bc3ef77a4d7a5bf6c9128e30cabe&id=eb063db9&e=4fe2b639>*
>> provides
>> the theories and tools that researchers and producers need to design and
>> conduct interdisciplinary systems research projects that advance
>> sustainable agroecosystems.
>>
>> Free download: http://www.sare.org/Learning-C
> enter/Books/Systems-Research-for-Agriculture?utm_source=emai
> l+marketing+Mailigen&utm_campaign=Systems+Book+Campaign&utm_medium=email
>
>
> I too offer congratulations to Laurie Drinkwater, Louise Buck and Diana
> Friedman for a manual, a long time coming, that is a step in the direction
> of a revolution in the way not only agricultural science, but all science,
> is done. I am writing a critical review of the document, which I will post
> here. Systems research has evolved rapidly in recent decades, even since
> the manual project was started. My review will suggest changes and
> additions that that I believe are updates necessary to inform systems
> research.
>
Karl's review is attached:
A Step in the Right Direction: A Critical Review
Karl North
December, 2016
Systems Research for Agriculture: Innovative Solutions to Complex
Challenges, by
Laurie E. Drinkwater with Diana Friedman and Louise Buck. SARE Handbook
Series 13.
2016.
My qualifications as a reviewer are as follows. The authors invited
Elizabeth Henderson and me to submit
initial recommendations to the project as it got under way around ten years
ago. I became familiar with
Laurie's holistic view of science when she invited me to participant in a
graduate seminar devoted to a
critical review of the literature of sustainability assessment. I am a long
time student of systems ecology
and the systems thinking revolution in science and some of its methods,
which I have tried to apply in my
farm design and in teaching ecological agriculture at an undergraduate
level. As a governing council
member of NESARE I advocated reserving a significant part of NESARE funding
for farming systems
research, which the council resisted, then flirted with briefly, funding
two research projects. The authors of
this manual used one of these, an expansion of an organic dairy research
project at the University of New
Hampshire, as a case study in the manual. I created and currently teach an
online introductory course in
systems thinking.
review of systems research manual by Laurie Drinkwater et al.pdf
--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared
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