Ecological thinking involves the social-political-ethical take
on how a being takes another being into its world, but while
preserving or respecting the other’s own relations and world.
This type of thinking style proposes a naturalistic,
ecologically oriented way of thinking which seeks to
eliminate the traditional dichotomy separating humanity (as
subject) and nature (as object), uses it as a route to
understanding diverse, complex, multiply interconnected
milieux. It posits connections among the physical, biological
and chemical as well as the social, ethical and political.
Ecological thinking requires a holistic approach to nature,
connecting communities and systems. On a larger scale,
ecological thinking involves focus on patterns, context,
connectedness, and relationship. Requiring the understanding
of parts in context of larger whole, viewing objects as
networks of relationships. It also contains multileveled order
of interdependence, a contextual thinking or weaving
together to make sure there is free flow in network, structure
follows.
Sources:
http://telstar.ote.cmu.edu/environ/m3/s5/index.shtml
http://llk.media.mit.edu/courses/readings/thinking-like-tree.pdf
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8645
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