• DocumentCode
    2154374
  • Title

    The tragedy of the global commons: dynamic aspects of a knowledge ecology and sociocultural entropy

  • Author

    Zessner, Walter W.

  • Author_Institution
    George Brown Coll., Toronto, Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    8-10 Jun 1995
  • Firstpage
    20
  • Lastpage
    31
  • Abstract
    Contemporary misuse of resources is repeating on a massive scale in the global village “the tragedy of the commons” that once afflicted English villages. Why is the planet vandalized by diverse ecological degradations? In this simplified overview even small scale resource depletions are included to have a significant impact on primitive cultures, impelling migration, violent conflict and cultural extinction. Environmental protection to preserve and sustain dwindling resources has emerged as a modern concern. To discern an underlying dynamic for such an ideational and ecological entropy suggests the development of a model as a synthesis and meta-analytic approach (once envisaged as a vital cybernetic objective)
  • Keywords
    ecology; economics; environmental factors; natural resources; social sciences; cultural extinction; cybernetics; ecological degradations; ecological entropy; environmental protection; global village; knowledge ecology; meta-analytic approach; model; natural resources; resource depletions; sociocultural entropy; synthesis approach; Biological system modeling; Cultural differences; Degradation; Educational institutions; Entropy; Environmental economics; Environmental factors; Planets; Power generation economics; Protection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations and Applications of General Science Theory, 1995. Knowledge Tools for a Sustainable Civilization. Interdisciplinary Conference., Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3365-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/KTSC.1995.569150
  • Filename
    569150