Edition June 1, 2008 SYSTEMS OF SUSTAINABILITY Managing the production of goods and provision of services for a sustainable future consumermatics- (noun) a group of related subjects, including geography, geology, biology and history, concerned with the study of the human use of natural resources to maintain the necessities of life. consumerate- (adjective) able to trace the impact of purchasing, or partaking of goods, on the natural resources which produced them. consumeracy- (noun) ability to to trace the impact of purchasing, or taking goods, on the natural resources which produced them. (ie numeracy and literacy) natural economy- (noun) the management of natural resources for human production political economy- (noun) the government of people for human production Version 9 (1999) Compiled by Denis Bellamy Natural Economy Research Unit National Museum of Wales Cardiff CF1 3NP Contents p 1 Edition June 1, 2008 CONTENTS RESOURCES AND PEOPLE: AN EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ..................10 FOR MANAGING CHANGE..................................................................................10 1 Environmental Education....................................................................................10 2 The Human Ecological Niche As A Focus Of Education...................................21 3 Environmental Accounting ................................................................................21 4 Our Role in Changing the Face of the Earth ......................................................23 5 Consumermatics The General Model ................................................................24 6 Importance Of An Historical Perspective ..........................................................26 7 Agrarianism and World Development ...............................................................28 8 Life In Complex Farming Societies ...................................................................30 9 Conceptual Plan of An Agricultural Fiefdom .....................................................31 10 Birth of Consumer Societies ............................................................................35 11 Industrialism and World Development............................................................39 12 Bringing Industrialism Into Education..............................................................41 13 Controls On Industrialism.................................................................................43 14 Educational Advantages...................................................................................44 15 The Rio Environment Summit.........................................................................45 16 Important Action Points Of Agenda 21 ...........................................................50 16 Systems of Sustainability.................................................................................56 CONSUMERMATICS: A SUBJECT FOR LIVING IN A .......................................70 CONSUMER SOCIETY ...........................................................................................70 1 The Terms 'Nature' And 'Natural'........................................................................70 2 Nature Conforms To Physical Laws ..................................................................70 3 The Global Economy .........................................................................................70 4 Human Resources ..............................................................................................71 5 New Knowledge Systems Are Needed ..............................................................72 6 Economics And Environment............................................................................73 7 Ecosacy ..............................................................................................................75 8 Philosophy of Consumermatics ..........................................................................76 9 Markets and Trading Complexes ........................................................................79 10 Natural Economy and Political Economy........................................................81 11 Origins of Natural Resources...........................................................................83 12 Flows In A Natural Economy ..........................................................................85 13 Processes And Systems....................................................................................87 14 Cross-curricular Perspective .............................................................................89 15 Educational Objectives ...................................................................................105 NATURAL ECONOMY: MANAGING LOCAL PRODUCTION AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT...............................................................................108 1 Definition of Natural Economy.........................................................................108 2 The Knowledge Maps ......................................................................................109 3 Relationship of natural economy to consumermatics ......................................112 4 Natural Economy and the Monetary Economy................................................114 5 Different Kinds of Natural Economy...............................................................116 6 Different Social Production Systems ................................................................118 7 Ethnoecology and Ecomenes ...........................................................................121 8 The Conservation Culture.................................................................................121 9 Management Systems ......................................................................................122 Contents p 2 Edition June 1, 2008 10 Sustainable Economic Development .............................................................125 11 Focus On Landscapes.....................................................................................126 12 The Historical Dimension..............................................................................128 13 The Information Clusters ...............................................................................129 14 Origins of natural resources ...........................................................................137 15 Examples of Expansion Nets ..........................................................................140 ETHNOECOLOGY: THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CARE-CULTURES144 1 Caring Behaviour .............................................................................................144 2 Human Evolution And Environment ...............................................................146 3 Importance of Cultural Evolution in Education...............................................147 4 Education And Social Evolution......................................................................148 5 Human Control Of Evolution...........................................................................150 6 Conservation As A Cultural Trait...................................................................151 7 The Welsh Conservation Model ......................................................................152 8 A Management Orientated Curriculum............................................................152 9 Conservation Management ..............................................................................155 10 The Policy Model............................................................................................158 11 Environmental Impact Planning......................................................................160 12 Research Models............................................................................................164 13 The Site Management Model.........................................................................166 14 Modelling Socio-historical Heritage ..............................................................168 15 Systems Thinking' And Conservation Management......................................170 16 Importance Of Systems Thinking .................................................................173 17 Stocks Flows And Feedback..........................................................................174 18 Goal-conflict ..................................................................................................175 19 Management Plans ..........................................................................................175 'NEIGHBOURHOOD' AS AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE.............................178 1 Environment And Planning...............................................................................178 2 Education and Planning ...................................................................................181 3 Analytical Topography.....................................................................................183 4 Geography of 'Place'.........................................................................................186 5 Methodology Of Analytical Topography. .......................................................187 6 Biology of 'Place' .............................................................................................188 7 General Educational Aims. ............................................................................188 8 Specific Educational Aims...............................................................................190 9 Resources For Analytical Topography.............................................................192