Sustainable striving working together with nature
Written and copyrighted by Rick Simmons Published on: Sep 8, 2014 @ 10:46 GMT.
About 20 years ago, I wrote a school paper about sustainable striving forestry/forests. The paper was one of the foundations for my way of thinking about working together with nature. I believe we ought to transition the management perspective into one that works together with nature. By continuously working together, this integrated concept brings all disciplines together to look after all the environmental considerations and natural resources. So many segmented branches of natural resource and environmental fields often work separately and should work together because everything in nature is connected to everything else. Wouldn’t it be great to have all experts working together planning ecological intervention with nature? Imagine the cross-pollination of knowledge that people would continuously get when we bring all the experts together and work together. It makes sense to me because we all should strive to know all we can about nature, especially if we are responsible. It is a continuous learning concept that allows continual knowledge growth, research, and learning from fieldwork to Geospatial planning. The integration of fieldwork with planning gives us the ability to visualize and understand what, where, when, and why, as well as associations with other aspects of nature that are connected or associated with an area. A lot involves collecting data for research, planning purposes, and working together. Suppose we continually collect data in the field and assemble it in our systems. In that case, we can strive to accomplish the multiple considerations that we are trying to accomplish from a multidisciplinary perspective. Not only does it make sense from a planning and working together with nature perspective, but it is also an efficient way of doing things because we can strive to accomplish ecological problem-solving and impact assessment from a geographical perspective (which is the system for integration of knowledge and learning). From my perspective. Once we have researched and collected appropriate data, we can assemble and integrate knowledge that we can use for similar but different purposes. We can use the knowledge in an aware, holistic planning and field-assisting way. In other words, it is like knowing the geographical whereabouts of various ecological communities, species, habitats, migratory patterns, stream ecology considerations, species of concern, rare plants, nests of importance, buffers, water quality, biodiversity considerations, protected habitat, resilience as well as knowing knowledge like history, intervention history, holistic prescriptive advice for any area, and previous research projects that could be ongoing forever. Imagine all the knowledge that could be accumulated for well-intentioned purposes so we can help nature and help ourselves. While planning, we can use indicators to monitor the health of ecosystems and research areas where relative indicator values indicate something is fascinating and ought to be explored. This microcosmic example is one way we can sustainably strive to transition planet Earth. We will need many explorers, researchers, scientists, and all integrated disciplines.