…tities, whose boundaries are constantly shifting (eg rivers move, climates change, species adapt).” Birkeland believes that “for purposes of research, policy making and systems design, a new environmental management framework is needed at the regional level.” She suggests “a better starting point might be to map critical issues (eg water, energy), or whatever are determined to be the most fundamental limiting systems in the region.”
…e region must be integrated with its economy, culture, education, and governance.” He explains that “at on one level bioregionalism celebrates the regional ecology and attempts to create a corresponding culture. At another level, it is an attempt to create economies, technologies, material flows, and educational systems appropriate to the bioregion.”176
David Orr speaks of the geography of power and calls for a “reinvention of politics at the ecosystem level.” He argues that this will require “a substantial disengagement from the global economy and the pass…