{"id":210,"date":"2014-04-22T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/?p=210"},"modified":"2014-04-22T19:41:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:41:46","slug":"integral-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/2014\/04\/22\/integral-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Integral Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/files\/2014\/04\/inteco.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-211\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/files\/2014\/04\/inteco.jpeg\" alt=\"inteco\" width=\"192\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week we focused on Integral Ecology with An Overview of Integral Ecology by Sean Esbjorn- Hargens and Michael Zimmerman. As there are currently over 200 unique areas of study on the natural world, a system of comprehensive and consistent framework must exist to value and merge these varying perspectives. Integral ecology offers this framework. The authors break down this framework in several ways. One is the who, how and what perceptions of nature. They offer several visual models to break this down into 4 quadrants to illustrate these perspectives: 1. Intentional, 2. Behavioral, 3. Cultural, and 4. Social. Quadrant one is interior individual subjective, two is exterior individual objective, 3 is collective interior intersubjective and four is collective exterior interobjective. Hargens and Zimmerman note that academia and the public rarely consider the interior perspectives in regards to environmental problem solving.<br \/>\nThe authors also break down the quadrants into different terrains with 1 being the terrain of experience, 2 -terrain of behavior, 3- terrain of culture and 4- terrain of systems. The terrain of experience is defined as \u201c The subjective realities of any organism at all levels of its perception\u201d (p 4) The terrain of behaviors is defined as \u201cThe objective realities of any organism at all levels of its organization\u201d (p 4) The terrain of culture is defined as \u201cThe intersubjective realisties of any organism at all levels of its communion\u201d (p 4) and the terrain of systems is defined as \u201cThe interobjective realities of any organism at all levels of its intersection\u201d (p 4).<br \/>\nThese considerations might seem too in depth at first glance, but when one considers the goal- full accounting for all realms of perspective, it is necessary. Hargens and Zimmerman state that these quadrants are pertinent for creating understanding of world views, psychological properties, behaviors and patterns. It is through this understanding that we create a comprehensive understanding of the natural world and any attempts for problem solving in this domain. Coordination of these perspectives lead to integral pluralism which ensures correct understanding of the dynamics of ecology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we focused on Integral Ecology with An Overview of Integral Ecology by Sean Esbjorn- Hargens and Michael Zimmerman. As there are currently over 200 unique areas of study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}