THE BIOCYBERNETIC APPROACH AS A BASIS FOR PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE

摘要

The last decades, with societies and economies mostly focussing on quantitative growth and at the same time wasting natural resources with linear production processes, are now culminating in a critical situation for our social, ecological and economical systems. Regardless that general consciousness about the interdependencies in our interconnected global world, caused mainly by the world wide web and effects of globalization, and also the knowledge about ecological contexts have grown, the use of this knowledge in our reality - in politics, governance, economy, education - is still missing. It seems that something constrains fundamentally the necessary change in our modes of governance and planning.