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Permaculture design and organizations - A fertile hybridization

Author: Frédéric ROUSSEAU

Publication date: October 10, 2023

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ABSTRACT

Facing challenges within their organization, corporations, solo entrepreneurs or non-profit environments can use permaculture design to resolve them. By influencing current practices, without demanding a radical transformation, this methodology, deeply rooted in contemporary imagination, activates efficient systemic principles. This article illuminates the fundamental concepts of permaculture design and systems thinking, and the method for introducing them into organizations. It then details concrete application examples. Finally, it explores the potential and inherent limitations of this approach

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  • Frédéric ROUSSEAU: Project manager and lecturer in transdisciplinary project management: École spéciale des travaux publics (ESTP), Paris, France, Erasmus Mundus and Sciences Po Lyon

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Summary: Faced with difficulties within their organization, companies, self-entrepreneurs and associations can use permaculture design to resolve them. By influencing existing practices, without requiring a radical transformation, this methodology, which is rooted in today's imagination, activates powerful systemic principles. This article sets out the fundamental notions of permaculture and systems thinking, and the method for introducing them into organizations. It then details concrete examples of application. Finally, it examines the potentials and limits inherent in this approach.

Abstract : facing challenges within their organization, corporations, solo entrepreneurs or non-profit environments can use permaculture design to resolve them. By influencing current practices, without demanding a radical transformation, this methodology, deeply rooted in contemporary imagination, activates efficient systemic principles. This article illuminates the fundamental concepts of permaculture design and systems thinking, and the method for introducing them into organizations. It then details concrete application examples. Finally, it explores the potential and inherent limitations of this approach.

Keywords: permaculture design, permaculture, system, organization.

Keywords: permaculture design, system, organization.

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organization   |   system   |   Permaculture   |   permaculture design


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