5(Illustrated) Ecosystems And Sustainable Development V (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment) (Advances in Ecological Sciences) by Enzo Tiezzi, C. A. Brebbia, S. E. Jorgensen, D. Almorza Gomar Hardcover, 776 Pages, Published 2005 by Wit Press / Computational Mechanics Ilustrado ISBN-13: 978-1-84564-013-2, ISBN: 1-84564-013-6
"Beyond the specific dimension of the individual, learning is a primary characteristic of life. Shifting our attention to local systems we can consider ecosystems and traditional communities as learning 'minds', according with Bateson’s thought. We call environmental wisdom the explicit knowledge that emerges from long periods of co-evolution of people and nature in local systems, cast in the same lot. Environmental wisdom rises both fro ..."