The Whole is More than the Sum of the Parts
Tycho Huussen
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Tycho Huussen
Systems thinking | project management & consultancy | ecodesign | geological net zero | marine cloud brightening | physics & marine science
Robustness, Resilience, Sustainability, and Emergence in Complex Systems
The Earth’s climate system is a good example of a complex system, and so is the global economy, the human brain and an ecosystem.
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Tycho
Great article. When I was working on rural health policy in Australia, the one thing that intrigued me about precarious health service delivery was how robust ecosystems had a huge level of redundancy. So resilience seems to me to be a function of redundancy. Evolution itself is driven by a state of redundancy in which 99+% of mutations are failures. And stories such as the extinction of the postal pigeon should remind us that when an ecological niche is flourishing, that doesn't mean we can simply kill off 80% of a species just because that leaves 1 million critters alive. The tipping point might be 12 or one million. If we don't get flourishing (redundancy) factored into our view, it seems we will under-estimate the structures of systems.