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1.4.2 Lant Framing
Lant et al. (2018) identified the following characteristics of the FEW system:
1. It has a clear “core,” but fuzzy system boundaries because of the many connections that exist between natural systems and human societies—the FEWeverything system.
2. There are four FEW system facts should inform our work:
(a) It dominates the human footprint on earth’s carrying capacities.
(b) It operates primarily at the meso-scale of cities, counties, and local watersheds (see Sect. 12.3 for a discussion of meso- and other scales).
(c) Cities are its hubs of processing, transit, and consumption (but not
production).
(d) It forms a network and can be understood best with network concepts
(Fig. 1.2).
1.4.3 D’Odorico Framing
D’Odorico et al. (2018) emphasized that the FEW system implicates the economic
factors of land, labor, and capital. The system can be understood by focusing on the
transitions that need to be undertaken in its components (e.g., renewable energy
transitions), and by focusing on the interdisciplinary problems and solutions that
touch on all three subsystems (e.g., climate change) (Fig. 1.3).
Fig. 1.1 The macroscope. (Source: de Rosnay 2014)
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1.4.2 Lant Framing
Lant et al. (2018) identified the following characteristics of the FEW system:
1. It has a clear “core,” but fuzzy system boundaries because of the many connections that exist between natural systems and human societies—the FEWeverything system.
2. There are four FEW system facts should inform our work:
(a) It dominates the human footprint on earth’s carrying capacities.
(b) It operates primarily at the meso-scale of cities, counties, and local watersheds (see Sect. 12.3 for a discussion of meso- and other scales).
(c) Cities are its hubs of processing, transit, and consumption (but not
production).
(d) It forms a network and can be understood best with network concepts
(Fig. 1.2).
1.4.3 D’Odorico Framing
D’Odorico et al. (2018) emphasized that the FEW system implicates the economic
factors of land, labor, and capital. The system can be understood by focusing on the
transitions that need to be undertaken in its components (e.g., renewable energy
transitions), and by focusing on the interdisciplinary problems and solutions that
touch on all three subsystems (e.g., climate change) (Fig. 1.3).
Fig. 1.1 The macroscope. (Source: de Rosnay 2014)
1 Introduction