System

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• a complex
  assemblage of animals,
  plants, and their
  environment, through
  which materials and
  energy move.

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

an irreducible part or
aggregation of parts that make up a system, also called
a subsystem

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Components or parts

Question 3

Dependence of one subsystem on
one or more subsystems

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Interrelatedness

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distinct arrangement of components

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Pattern or design

Question 5

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a
network
of
interdependent
components and processes,
with materials and energy
flowing
from
one component of the system

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System

Question 6

interrelatedness of
components

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Form, structure, or organization

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overall goal or function

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Purpose or operation

Question 8

limitations to how a system functions or how
much it can accomplish

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Constraints

Question 9

everything external to the system that interacts
with i

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Environment

Question 10

spatial limits of a system separating it
from its environment.

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Scope or boundary

Question 11

Points or surfaces of contact between a system and
its environment or between subsystems

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Interface

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Whatever a system takes from its environment in
order to fulfill its purpose

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Inputs

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Whatever a system returns to its environment in
order to fulfill its purpose

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Outputs

Question 14

This is a principle of having distinct
characteristics arise from the mutual interactions of the parts
of a system which cannot be found as characteristics of any of
the individual parts

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Emergence

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– when a system or part of one repeats a
pattern of activity, often a manner that continues to reinforce
itself

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Feedback loop

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System of persons or things arranged in a graded
order.

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System hierarchy

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Refers to systems that are organized in the shape of
a pyramid, with each row of objects linked to objects
directly beneath it.

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System hierarchy

Question 18

is a
common concept for understanding how causal relationships
and feedbacks work within a system.

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systemic thinking

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can provide a convenient representation of this
multidisciplinary reality of how humans interact with the rest of nature

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Conceptual models

Question 20

An “integrated complex system that includes social (human)
and ecological (nature) subsystems in a two-way feedback
relationship

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Socio-ecological system

Question 21

which arose from the need to develop a philosophy of relations between humans and their environment

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Environmental ethics

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which examines the link betweenecologyandeconomics by bridging the two disciplines to promote an integrated view of economics within the ecosystem.

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Ecological economics

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which examines the linkages betweenresource managementand social organisation,

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Common property

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which expands ecological concerns to respond to the inclusion of cultural and political activity within an analysis ofecosystems that are significantly but not always entirelysocially constructed.

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Political ecology

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which refers to ecological understanding built, not by experts, but by people who live and use the resources of a place.

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Traditional ecological knowledge