Salesforce Miami User Group Event - 1st Quarter 2024
MN River Basin Restoration (Part I): Richard Currie Smith
1. Prairie emergence: Ecological restoration through self-organization Biosemiotics in America Symposium Purdue University Richard Currie Smith, Ph.D. September 30, 2006
9. Nature Impels Us Not to Admire a Small River ‘that Ministers to our Necessities’ But the Nile, the Ister [Danube] and the Rhine.” Loginus(18 th Century Landscape Painter)
11. Potentially on of the most beautiful prairie rivers in the nation, the Minnesota functions as a drainage ditch for farmers and a toilet for many rural Minnesotans. Its cleanup poses daunting challenges and costs.
15. Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) Ecological Anthropologist & Communication Theorist Major Works : “Steps to an Ecology of Mind” (1972 [2000]) “ Mind and Nature” (1979 [2002])
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19. Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems Approach to Ecological Restoration Dynamic Equilibrium through Self-Organization: “ Ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest are undoubtedly self-corrective. If in a given year the population of some species is unusually increased or reduced, within a few years that population will return to its usual level… [or] when the growing seedling bends toward light, it is influenced by difference in illumination and grows more rapidly on the darker side, thus bending and catching more light- a substitute for locomotion. Gregory Bateson