Adaptive Ecosystem Approach

An adaptive ecosystem approach to sustainability and health assumes that a sustainable society maintains itself in the context of the larger ecological system of which it is a part. Within the dynamics of eco-social complexity and the uncertainty this generates, we are faced with finding our way through a foggily perceived landscape rather than charting a scientifically determined course to a known end point.

A complete discussion of the history and evolution of our ecosystem approach is found in Waltner-Toews and Kay 2004. [personal use only]