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"Panarchy" is a play on words that includes many of the concepts
inherent in Panarchy.
"pan-" means all, whole, global. Panarchy in this sense is the truly
global emergence of the system of relations that characterizes
Panarchy.
"Pan" was a Greek nature deity. Mark Salter, one of the co-creaters of
the word, remarks "the pan within panarchy evokes the playful Greek
god Pan of sylvan and pastoral tranquillity, overseer of forests,
shepherd of shepherds and their flocks. It thus connotes an archetypal
steward of biospheric well-being....capable of sustaining generations
yet unborn" (Sewell and Salter, 1995).
"PAN" is also an acronym for Personal Area Network. A personal area
network is the interconnection of information technology devices
within the range of an individual person, usually by wireless. PAN's
make possible a truly decentralized and global citizenry.
Gunderson and Holling, in their book Panarchy: Understanding
Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature also coincidentally
coined the term, saying:
The term [panarchy] was coined as an antithesis to the word hierarchy
(literally, sacred rules). Our view is that panarchy is a framework of
nature's rules, hinted at by the name of the Greek god of nature, Pan.
and
[We needed to] invent another term that captures the adaptive and
evolutionary nature of adaptive cycles that are nexted one within the
other across space and time scales.
For Gunderson and Holling,
The cross-scale, interdisciplinary, and dynamic nature of the theory
has led us to coin the term panarchy for it. Its essential focus is to
rationalize the interpplay between change and persistence, between the
predictable and unpredictable.
Thus
A panarchy is a cross-scale, nested set of adaptive cycles.
"Anarchy" is not persistent chaos. It is the absence of persistent
hierarchy. In natural anarchies, order emerges from within, instead of
being imposed from without, thus creating holarchy. Instead of anarchy
being an obstacle to the creation of order, as is generally assumed,
anarchy is in fact a prerequisite for healthy forms of order. Panarchy
is a holarchy, but it relies on anarchy as a foundation so that the
order which emerges is autopoietic and not imposed.
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