Environmental systems analysis and management

1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-273
Author(s):  
Jacques C.J. Nihoul
Author(s):  
Gilbert Ahamer

For university teaching in general, and specifically for the transdisciplinary curriculum of “Environmental Systems Analysis”, web-based learning procedures provide excellent opportunities for socially induced understanding and consensus building. This chapter describes how the social processes emerging in a five-level web-based negotiation game may be conceived in such a way that these form a sequence of growing and decaying intensity in various modes of social interaction. Similarly to individual learning in a classroom, a procedure could be applied to collective learning, namely to social procedures among humans who are starting to create institutional networks for combating global climate change – one of the most urgent tasks at present. A coordinate system of the four main social archetypes of action, namely “information”, “team”, “debate”, “integration” is symbolically called soprano, alto, tenor and bass; these four basic dimensions of social action tend to peak one after the other along a suitably designed gaming procedure.


2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Ahlroth ◽  
Måns Nilsson ◽  
Göran Finnveden ◽  
Olof Hjelm ◽  
Elisabeth Hochschorner

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