Systems Thinking and Worldviews
What is a shareholder and what is a shareholder view?
Shareholder is someone who owns a piece of a company through shares. A shareholder view is one that focuses only on maximizing shareholder value.
What are the core planetary boundaries?
Climate change, biosphere integrity
How many social foundations are there?
12
What is the definition of business sustainability?
To do business while also considering the health and well-being of future generations
What is a worldview?
A set of beliefs/values, that are held by a group of people or individual
What are some of the realities of overshooting the planetary boundaries?
Climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, soil depletion, destruction and decline of marine life?
What framework was proposed by the United Nations (similar to the Social Foundations)
Sustainable Development Goals
- UNDRIP as well
Who proposed the donut model and what are some of its key components?
Kate Raworth,
1. Social Foundations, 2. Safe and just space for humanity, 3. ecological ceiling
Distributive and regenerative/circular
thriving without rapid growth
What is two-eyed seeing?
Weaving between and Indigenous lens and a Western lens and acknowledging both perspectives.
Which planetary boundary relates to the conversion of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other vegetation types o agricultural lands?
Land-systems change?
What do the social foundations represent?
The minimum standards required for members of society to have all their basic needs met.
What is circularity?
Circularity is the idea of turning the waste (output) from one product into the raw material (input of another)
- i.e. old produce into animal feed, textile waste into nylon yarn/furniture
What is a systems view?
Considers operations as part of a nested system, bounded by, and embedded within the environmental, social and economic systems in which an organization operates
What is a systems view?
What is the Anthropocene?
A period in time where human derived technologies significantly impact earths systems, enough to cause widespread geographic changes.
Why are social foundations important (what are the things it addresses?
Food security, job security/employment opportunities, education, water security, access to health care, political voice, gender and social equality
What is the difference between decolonization and indigenization?
Decolonization: removing or undoing colonial elements from something
Indigenization: adding or reintroducing Indigenous elements to something
What are the main differences between an Indigenous Worldview and a Western Worldview?
Many truth vs. One truths
Spirituality vs. Science
Relationality vs. Compartmentalization
Which treaty banned the use of CFC's to address the hole in the ozone layer?
The Montreal Protocol
What are some issues with only using GDP?
Doesn't consider volunteer-work/household labour
Income inequality or wealth distribution
Environmental depletion
What is community resilience?
A communities capacity to withstand and address issues or changes that occur, adapt to new circumstances, and prepare for future events.