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AbstractThe paper aims to highlight the importance of subjective, objective and intersubjective domains when engaging in public education and research on wicked problems such as violence, poverty, climate change, loss of habitat and pandemics. The case is made that critical systemic thinking and practice—underpinned by a meta Design of Inquiring Systems—could help to foster a more relational response to the convergent social, economic and environmental policy challenges that pose 'existential risks'. This paper explores the implications of 'mismeasuring our lives' by not understanding relationality. It reflects on the factors that are linked with the 'unravelling' of well‐being, in order to prevent and restore the multispecies relationships that have been forgotten. This requires a bio‐political approach to reframing not only economics but our relationships with one another and with nature. 'Power and knowledge are linked' and nowhere is Foucault's linkage more marked than in the biopolitical determination of what species are valued and why. Taxonomies are constructs based on values that need to be carefully considered in terms of the consequences of policy decisions.

AbstractCOVID‐19 can be seen as feedback for anthropocentric social, economic and environmental decision‐making that disrespects other living systems. The paper makes a case that respects for multiple species, and the onus of beneficence should be applied to all living systems of which we are a strand. Human beings are not exceptional insofar as they are able to communicate, make decisions, demonstrate a sense of community and show empathy or to make political calculations. What does this mean for the way we live our lives? Respect for persons needs to include animals, plants and the earth. It is time to rethink rights and responsibilities to protect habitat. Goodall stresses that the loss of habitat leads to species that have never been in contact before (and thus without any resistance) causing cross species infections.

The paper is focused on exploring the following questions: How can policy makers develop agreement on (i) what constitutes and (ii) supports the well‐being of the planet, rather than the gross domestic product of a nation state? How can we design Participatory Democracy and Systemic Governance to (i) support the appropriate distribution and consumption of resources and (ii) protect social and environmental diversity and justice? The paper discusses thinking and practice to test out 'technologies of humility' in the sense used by Jasonoff. It suggests the potential for a hybrid bricolage of laws and praxis to enable the transformation of our designs for living to support biospheres. Biospheres need to be understood as oceans, rivers, the air we breathe, the earth that supports the food chain and the universe of which we are a part. In other words, this reframed definition extends beyond the original definitions of that which was outside the boundaries of a nation state. Instead, it locates nation states within the regional biosphere, which sustains them. Caretaking needs to be rooted in many kinds of knowledge to: (i) 'De‐centre' anthropocentricism (by drawing on the work of Rose Bird, Wynne and Mathews); and (ii) 'Address' the convergent social, cultural and economic crisis. The challenge is to 'promote' an ever extending or widening circle of solidarity to 'care for' the next generation of life. It also requires the creation of new global narratives arising out of a cross‐pollination of spiritual ideas from a range of religious and spiritual practices. This appreciation of narratives could inform discursive engagement to help establish ethical processes to support well‐being (Braun, et al.) at a post national level. This requires discursive engagement as well as participatory governance to enable accountability and whistleblowing on the misuse of power or resources. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

AbstractThis essay explores a 'Linkage proposition', to use Len Troncale's expression, that the universe—both social and natural—is a feedback/feed forward loop. Mathematically, it can be described as recursive Mobius Band (see Kauffman, 2006). Energy transfer and communication link social and natural systems. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

AbstractThe paper stresses the importance of understanding the connections across self, others (including sentient beings), the environment and technological applications, in order to ensure sustainable futures. It makes a case for ethical dialogue as a process to engage and co‐create shared meanings, in order to enhance democracy and rescue the enlightenment from its failings. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

AbstractThis article is aimed at organisations and researchers to urge them to adopt more systemic ways to deal with energy justice issues in renewable energy projects being built around the world to help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) 7. It will focus on solar and wind farms. While these projects positively contribute towards achieving UNSDG 7 (viz., affordable clean energy), they have also created a variety of justice issues, which need to be addressed. While measures have been taken more recently to redress these issues, we make the case that the application of systemic thinking and practice could maximise the positives and minimise negative impacts of creating short‐term fixes without addressing the underlying root causes of the issues. Using two case studies, we will show how working systemically with indigenous populations and considering indigenous knowledge systems could help in dealing with justice issues.

Chapter 1. Summary and key themes: We are the land and the waters -- Chapter 2. Dynamic weaving together strands of experience: Multiple mixed methods approaches to resilience and re-generation based on intra-, inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches -- Chapter 3. Maintaining space for dialogue and diversity -- Chapter 4. Displacement, loss and enclosure of the commons: the role of the Dutch East India Company -- Chapter 5. Food and the home front: New Guinea Villagers' survival during the Pacific War -- Chapter 6. Limits to Growth, the Rohingya, and Planetary Health -- Chapter 7. Vignette: Human rights issue of the Rohingya Refugees -- Chapter 8. Transnational Corporations and West Papua: A Friend or Foe for Indigenous People of this Region?- Chapter 9. Avoiding another East-Timor atrocity: The fight for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in West Papua Caring for people and place: transformative practice -- Chapter 10. Ubuntu : A dialogue on connectedness, environmental protection and education -- Chapter 11. Putting communal land into productive use through collaboration, networking and partnerships in rural South Africa -- Chapter 12. Designing a policy response to populism and the 'wicked' issues of exclusion, unemployment, poverty and climate change -- Chapter 13. Transformation: a change in perspective -- Chapter 14. Strengthening social reform in rural areas through women's self-employment -- Chapter 15. Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 16. Enhancing Agency by listening and hearing to enhance capacity of the most marginalised in New Zealand Our Respective Journeys -- Chapter 17. Reserved seats for women in rural local government: achieving a level playing field Social economic and environmental challenges for transformation -- Chapter 18. Water mis-management as a wicked problem in Nauli City, Indonesia A mixed-method approach -- Chapter 19. Fostering ecological citizenship through recognising non-anthropocentric right to habitat -- Chapter 20. Concluding note -- Chapter 21. Being Systemic and Caring

The paper explores the reframing of performance auditing practice based on a critical systemic approach using critical systems heuristics or 'if‐then' thinking. The critical systems heuristics approach is applied to enhance public accountability in Indonesia. The paper aims to apply critical systemic thinking to the following area of concern: How can accountability be enhanced? A case is made for developing and extending current performance auditing processes to take into account well‐being stocks for current and future generations in Indonesia. The aim is to discuss the current challenges facing auditing and to suggest alternatives in order to make some policy suggestions as to how to reframe the performance auditing practice with regard to the following: (i) to what extent the environmental aspect on performance auditing is perceived by the auditors and (ii) how the current practice of performance auditing could be improved to promote better accountability? Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This paper is directed towards answering questions such as the following:•How can policy makers develop agreement on what constitutes and supports well‐being of the planet rather than the gross domestic product of a nation state (Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi)?•How can nested forms of participatory democracy and systemic governance do the following: (i) support the appropriate distribution and consumption of resources; and (ii) protect social and environmental diversity and justice at the local and regional levels? To this end, the paper addresses pathways to redress the commodification of relationships across human beings, the voiceless and the environment, on the basis of considering the consequences for the next generation of life on the planet. It makes the case that the 'technologies of humility' for social and environmental justice (Jasanoff) need to be informed by a caretaking approach. Many kinds of knowledge need to decentre anthropocentricism (Wynne) to protect biodiversity (Rose Bird, Freya Mathews, and Haraway). Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Summary: Transformative education for re-generation McIntyre-Mills -- Part 1. Education Thinking and Practice -- 1. Regenerative education: habitats for diverse species (McIntyre-Mills, J. J.) -- 2. Fluid, organic thinking and relationality: implications for education and international relations (McIntyre-Mills, J. J.) -- 3. Nurdles and food security education for wellbeing: implications for Pan-African Social and Environmental Justice (McIntyre-Mills, J. J.) -- 4. Vignette on Ocean View Organic Farm (Swanepoel, S.) -- 5. Collective action for re-generation of the web of life in the face of disruptive injustice (Akena Adyanga, F and Romm NRA) -- Part 2. Extending the 'frontiers of justice' -- 6. Learning from nature's classroom: reframing economics, accounting and accountability (McIntyre-Mills, J. Wirawan, R. and Widianingsih, I.) -- 7. Transformative Education: Employing the balanced scorecard to achieve re-generative development (Algraini, S.) -- 8. Education and gender mainstreaming in a patriarchal setting: What Really Matters (Aktar, S.M. and Rahman, M.) -- 9. Gender roles in Vietnam: A metalogue on the traditional and the new and suggestions for transformation (Nguyen, H. McIntyre-Mills J and Corcoran-Nantes, Y.) -- 10. Dis-Ability, differently abled and sentient beings: transformative re-generation: The need for public education on vulnerability and interbeing (McIntyre-Mills, J.J.) -- 11. Public education on the rights of sentient beings to a life free of suffering (McIntyre-Mills, J J.) -- 12. Assault on situational complexity in the arena of education: the potential of dialogical design: an application to the needs of the hard of hearing (Christakis, A.N. & Diedrich, J.) -- 13. Online learning and the pedagogy of resilience, agency and protest: The COVID-19 experience (Mabunda, P. and McKay, V.) -- 14. Rethinking teacher education practicum for transformative and re-generative university-community partnerships (Mabunda, P.) -- 15. Transformative Exhibitions and Artistic Practices (Jaber, R. and Corcoran-Nantes, Y.) -- Part 3. Learning in 360 degrees -- 16. Sacred Groves of the Tolon District of the Northern Region, Ghana: Where Spirituality meets education for Sustainable Development (Addae, D. and McIntyre-Mills, J.) -- 17. Aa!!Venda women and social enterprise: Stepwise progress to regenerative and sustainable living (Lethole, P., Makaulule, M., McIntyre-Mills, J.J. and Wirawan, R.) -- 18. Women, education and socialisation - transforming gender and power in the MST, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Yvonne Corcoran Nantes) -- 19. Encounters and Mis-encounters: the process of political pedagogy between educators and families of the Landless Movement (MST) settlement of Pirituba II, South-Eastern Sao Paulo, Brazil (1984-2006) (Barbosa da Silva, E. and Corcoran-Nantes, Y.) -- 20. Combining Focus and Circumspection: An Education in Natural Inclusion (Rayner, A.) -- 21. The g - Principle of Natural Inclusion: From Competition versus Cooperation to Heartfelt Relay (Rayner, A.) -- 22. Systemic Praxis and education to protect the commons (McIntyre-Mills, J. in conversation with Flanagan, T. Finlayson, D. and Wirawan, R.) -- Afterword (Yvonne Corcoran Nantes and Janet McIntyre-Mills) -- Postscript: Metalogue (McIntyre-Mills,J. in conversation with Trevino,R.).

Section 1 : Rethinking Human Security and Resilience as Vulnerable Multispecies Relationships -- Chapter 1: communication and culture : a multispecies endeavour: recognising kinship with multiple species -- Chapter 2: Pandemic in South Africa: reflections on lock down -- Chapter 3: From old to new taxonomies of rights, relationships and responsibilities to protect habitat -- Chapter 4:Interview: Recognising our Hybridity and interconnectedness' -- Chapter 5: Consciousness for Balancing Individualism and Collectivism -- Chapter 6: Prospects for sustainable development linked to a focus on interrelatedness, interdependence and mutuality: Some African perspectives -- Chapter 7: Habitat loss and near extinction of plants and insects in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Stewardship : an anthropocentric misnomer -- Chapter 9 : Social engagement to redress the banality of evil and the frontiers of justice: Limitations of the social contract to protect habitat and why an international law to prevent the crime of ecocide matters -- Chapter 10 : From polarisation to multispecies relationships: re-membering narratives -- Chapter 11: Vignette: Why thinking matters: constructivism, relationships and the performative universe -- Chapter 12 : Responsibly and Performatively researching multispecies relationality -- Chapter 13: City life in Vietnam: Autoethnographic reflection and application of Nussbaums's ten capabilities -- Section 2: Reframing and Re-claiming the commons through a-Priori and aposteriori approaches -- Chapter 14: Social and environmental justice: the legacy of Structured Democratic Dialogue and the potential of Pathways to Wellbeing -- Chapter 15: Social engagement to protect multispecies habitat: implications for re-generation and food security -- Chapter: 16 Educational curriculum and multispecies relations -- Chapter 17: The potential of eco-facturing: Towards social and environmental justice through vocational education and training -- Chapter 18: From Eduation as usual to creating a post national learning community -- Chapter 19: The co-laboratory of democracy archetypes: Engaging stakeholders in deliberative democracy to respond proactively to diversity -- Section 3: Case Studies and Vignettes: Loss, Hope and Common Ground -- Chapter 20: McIntyre-Mills, J. The Greta factor: turning point and need for transformative research -- Chapter 21: Gender Quotas in Local Government: Implications for Community-Climate Action in Bangladesh -- Chapter 22: Balancing the interests of wildlife and humans resulting in sustainable ecotourism: the case of Boabeng-Fiema monkeys' sanctuary, Ghana -- Chapter 23: Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: a tale of deliberate human and environmental devastation in Vietnam -- Chapter 24: Reflection on the Changing Role of Women in a Post Disaster Environment, Central Sulawesi Indonesia -- Chapter 25: Vignette: At the margins -- Chapter 26 : Biopolitics and food security to protect social and environmental justice -- Chapter 27: Vignette: Cannibalising the South Pacific -- Chapter 28: Systemic Praxis : narratives on steps towards re-generation -- Chapter 29: Crisis : what crisis? -- Chapter 30 Vignette: Creating Common Ground.-Chapter 31: Advancing a modern ethos for oneness with all life through archaic story title.-Chapter 32: Vignette: Relationships, narrative and memory -- Chapter 33: Vignette : Knackered , 'We are all flesh' -- Chapter 34: Vignette :Emergence , Regeneration and hope in the context of extinctions? -- Chapter 35: Objectifying intersubjectivity for a scientific (re)volution through inclusion -- Chapter 36 : Natural Inclusiveness -- Chapter 37 : Voices from below for social and environmental justice.