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Five Ecological Concepts

Tom Geraghty · Ecological Thinking

Introduces five ecological concepts — emergence, substrate, succession, indicator species, and ecotones — and maps them to organisational change. Shows how ecological thinking reframes intervention: from engineering outcomes to shaping the conditions from which outcomes emerge.

Connected concepts (17)

• Core Principles
• Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (paper)
• Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (paper)
• More Is Different (paper)
• Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems (paper)
• A Leader's Framework for Decision Making (paper)
• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (paper)
• Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-Ecological Systems (paper)
• Moving off the Map: How Knowledge of Organizational Operations Empowers and Alienates (paper)
• Rewetting Organisations
• Thinking Like an Ecologist
• Adaptive Cycle
• Can You See The Cat?
• Ecotones & Edge Effect
• Knowledge Transfer and International Joint Ventures: The Case of NUMMI and General Motors (paper)
• Selection Pressure & PS
• The PS Knowledge Map