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1.1.1-.3 Systems
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Environmental Systems and Societies
Interrelationships among climate, geology, soil, vegetation, and animals.
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A SystemIs an organized collection of
interdependent components that perform a function and which are connected through the transfer of
energy and/or matter
All the parts are linked together and affect each other.
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Why use Systems Concept
Why do we use Systems?
• Useful for understanding and explaining phenomena
• A holistic approach that can lead to a deeper understanding and possibly to further discoveries
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Characteristics of Systems
What are the characteristics?• Component parts (reservoirs, storages, stocks,
accumulations)• Processes (flows, transformations, transfers,
reactions, photosynthesis, respiration)• Negative feedback mechanism for maintaining
equilibrium Eg, circulatory system– heart, veins, arteries, capillaries, blood cells, plasma
etc– pumping of the blood, blood pressure, nutrient
exchange, vasodilation etc
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Why Models
Why models?
• The real thing is not available or it’s impractical
• Too rare, too complex, too big, too expensive
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What is a Model?
What is a model?
• A representation or a simulation, could be conceptual, physical, mathematical
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How to evaluate a model?
• Does it explain past observations
• Does it agree with other models
• Does it predict accurately
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Models
• “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
R Buckminster Fuller
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A system has properties and functions NOT present in the individual
components.
The whole (system) is greater than the sum of the parts.
Properties of the whole (system) CANNOT be predicted with the study of
the parts on their own.
This is called “Synergy”
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Synergy and Systems
• Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being. Buckminster Fuller
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System according to Buckminster Fuller (a good example of the
use of language)• A system is the first subdivision of Universe. It divides all
the Universe into six parts: first, all the universal events occurring geometrically outside the system; second, all the universal events occurring geometrically inside the system; third, all the universal events occurring nonsimultaneously, remotely, and unrelatedly prior to the system events; fourth, the Universe events occurring nonsimultaneously, remotely, and unrelatedly subsequent to the system events; fifth, all the geometrically arrayed set of events constituting the system itself; and sixth, all the Universe events occurring synchronously and or coincidentally to and with the systematic set of events uniquely
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Fuller’s Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science Model
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1. OPEN SYSTEM: a system in which both matter and energy are exchanged across boundaries of the system.
Systems are defined by the source and ultimate destination of their
matter and/or energy.
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2. CLOSED SYSTEM: a system in which energy is exchanged across boundaries of the system, but matter is not.
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3. ISOLATED SYSTEM: a system in which neither energy nor matter is exchanged across boundaries of the system.
NO SUCH SYSTEM EXISTS!!!
Most natural living systems are OPEN systems.
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Two basic processes must occur in an ecosystem:
1. A cycling of chemical elements.2. Flow of energy.
TRANSFERS: normally flow through a system and involve a change in location.TRANSFORMATIONS: lead to an interaction within a system in the formation of a new end product, or involve a change of state.
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Components of a system:
1.Inputs such as energy or matter. Calories
Protein
Human
Body
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2. Flows of matter or energy within the systems at certain rates.
Human
Metabolis
m
Calories
Protein
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3.Outputs of certain forms of matter or energy that flow out of the system into sinks in the environment.
Calories
Protein
Human
Metabolis
m
WasteHeat
WasteMatter
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4. Storage areas in which energy or matter can accumulate for various lengths of time before being released.
Calories
Protein
Human
Metabolis
m
• fat
• insulation
• muscle fiber
• hair, nails
• enzymes
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Inputs and Outputs
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energy input from sun
PHOTOSYNTHESIS(plants, other producers)
energy output (mainly heat)
nutrient cycling
RESPIRATION(hetero & autos, decomposers)
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SUSTAINABILITY is the extent to which a given interaction with the environment exploits and utilizes the natural income without causing long-term deterioration
to the natural capital.