Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Systemic preconditions and ontological modeling for peri-urban communities

Systemic preconditions and ontological modeling for peri-urban communities This research presents an ontological model, to communicate the impact of dynamic preconditions for peri-urban communities. As such, this paper approaches perturbation communities as social-complex-adaptive-systems.Design/methodology/approachPrevious assessment of dynamic preconditions have typically been based on top-down approaches. Through the lens of social-complex-adaptive and systemic design approaches (requiring a range of different disciplines), this work focuses on providing a broader view towards periurban research. The methodological approach involved academic literature, fieldwork observations, in-depth discussions with community, government, experts and research groups, focusing on a region called “Xochimilco” on the outskirts of Mexico City, a unique pre-Hispanic, Aztec ecosystem. This evolving man made agricultural/ecological structure of island plots, still provides environmental services to Mexico City. This region provides the basis of the research and subsequent ontological model. Ontology, in this instance, refers to the nature of being within a range of constraining dynamic forces relating to resilient behaviors of the current Xochimilco perturbation ecosystem.FindingsXochimilco can be considered as a longitudinal phenomenon that contributed to the understanding of observable resilient and precondition elements between the past and present of a living complex-adaptive-system.Practical implicationsThe research has provided a better understanding of community resilience through preconditions, contributing towards preparation of environmental change and future urbanization. To this end, the research focused on visualizing key dynamics elements for communities attempting to absorb new urban conditions (being continuously pushed into it).Originality/valueThe outcomes of this research have provided specific systemic, bottom up approaches with ontological modeling to assist with visualizing and understanding intangible dynamic conditions that impact high complex areas of perturbation regions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development Emerald Publishing

Systemic preconditions and ontological modeling for peri-urban communities

Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/systemic-preconditions-and-ontological-modeling-for-peri-urban-tZPU9e2tG0
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
2044-1266
DOI
10.1108/jchmsd-05-2020-0074
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This research presents an ontological model, to communicate the impact of dynamic preconditions for peri-urban communities. As such, this paper approaches perturbation communities as social-complex-adaptive-systems.Design/methodology/approachPrevious assessment of dynamic preconditions have typically been based on top-down approaches. Through the lens of social-complex-adaptive and systemic design approaches (requiring a range of different disciplines), this work focuses on providing a broader view towards periurban research. The methodological approach involved academic literature, fieldwork observations, in-depth discussions with community, government, experts and research groups, focusing on a region called “Xochimilco” on the outskirts of Mexico City, a unique pre-Hispanic, Aztec ecosystem. This evolving man made agricultural/ecological structure of island plots, still provides environmental services to Mexico City. This region provides the basis of the research and subsequent ontological model. Ontology, in this instance, refers to the nature of being within a range of constraining dynamic forces relating to resilient behaviors of the current Xochimilco perturbation ecosystem.FindingsXochimilco can be considered as a longitudinal phenomenon that contributed to the understanding of observable resilient and precondition elements between the past and present of a living complex-adaptive-system.Practical implicationsThe research has provided a better understanding of community resilience through preconditions, contributing towards preparation of environmental change and future urbanization. To this end, the research focused on visualizing key dynamics elements for communities attempting to absorb new urban conditions (being continuously pushed into it).Originality/valueThe outcomes of this research have provided specific systemic, bottom up approaches with ontological modeling to assist with visualizing and understanding intangible dynamic conditions that impact high complex areas of perturbation regions.

Journal

Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jul 1, 2021

Keywords: Systemic preconditions; Periurban communities; Systemic design; Emergence; Resilience; Capacity; Robustness; Adaptability; Complex adaptive systems; Sustaining dynamic forces; Constraining dynamic forces; Sustaining dynamic processes; Ontological model

References

  • A test of the emergent norm theory of collective behavior
    Aguirre, B.E.; Wenger, D.; Rico, G.
  • The debut of “Modern water” in early 20th century Mexico city: the Xochimilco potable water works
    Banister, J.; Widdifield, S.
  • Aalto LAB Mexico: co-designing to maintain ecosystem services
    Chantiri, P.; Sanchez de la Barquera Estrada, X.; Garduño, C.; Nousala, S.; Rojas, O.
  • Dynamic boundaries of action based learning: the longitudinal impact
    Dongjin, S.; Nousala, S.; Aibeo, P.
  • Design process as communication agency for value co- creation in open social innovation project: a case study of Qu Yang community in shanghai
    Dongjin, S.; Nousala, S.; Yongqi, L.
  • Resilience: the emergence of a perspective for social - ecological systems analyses
    Folke, C.
  • Exploring a poly‐disciplinary pedagogy for community wellbeing that evolves through design approaches: aalto LAB with(in) a Mayan community
    Garduño, C.; Nousala, S.; Fuad Luke, A.
  • Lessons learned when doing things backwards: the case study of aalto LAB
    Garduño, C.; Nousala, S.; Vértiz, J.; Calvillo, G.; Barquera la de Sanchez, X.
  • Ecological resilience - in theory and application
    Gunderson, L.H.
  • Studying complex adaptive systems
    Holland, J.H.
  • Resilience and stability of ecological systems
    Holling, C.S.
  • Defining peri-urban: understanding rural-urban linkages and their connection to institutional contexts
    Iaquinta, D.L.; Drescher, A.W.
  • Pattern manual for service systems thinking: a proposal discussion
    Ing, D.
  • Sustainability of systems of systems
    Katina, P.F.; Despotou, G.; Calida, B.Y.; Kholodkov, T.; Keating, C.B.
  • Urban agriculture in the metropolitan zone of Mexico City: changes over time in urban, suburban and peri-urban areas
    Losada, H.; Martinez, H.; Vieyra, J.; Pealing, R.; Zavala, R.; Cortés, J.
  • Public policies affecting the development of urban agriculture in Mexico City
    Losada, H.; Vargas, J.M.; Cortés, J.; Luna, L.; Alemán, V.
  • Environmental and socio-economic sustainability of chinampas (raised beds) in Xochimilco, Mexico city
    Merlín-Uribe, Y.; González-Esquivel, C.E.; Contreras-Hernández, A.; ZambranoMoreno-Casasola, L.P.; Astier, M.
  • What could future learning structures look like and why would we care? The praxis of complex adaptive systems and learning structures
    Nousala, S.
  • Emerging autopoietic communities – scalability of knowledge transfer in complex systems
    Nousala, S.; Hall, W.P.
  • Process improvement and ICTs in Australian SMEs: a selection and implementation framework
    Nousala, S.; Ifandoudas, P.; Terziovski, M.; Chapman, R.
  • Sociotechnical systems for connecting social knowledge and the Governance of Urban action and dynamic boundaries: the impact of action based learning
    Nousala, S.; Hall, W.P.; Hadgraft, R.
  • New developments in the theory of the firm
    Simon, H.
  • Farming dynamics and social capital: a case study in the urban fringe of Mexico city
    Torres-Lima, P.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, L.
  • Bateson's levels of learning: a framework for transformative learning?
    Tosey, P.
  • Shelter, location and livelihoods: exploring the linkages in Mexico city
    Wiggle, J.
  • Realizing the right to the city: from declaration to action?
    Wigle, J.
  • The “Xochimilco model” for managing irregular settlements in conservation land in Mexico city
    Wigle, J.
  • The “Graying” of “green” zones: spatial governance and irregular settlement in Xochimilco, Mexico city
    Wigle, J.
  • Food web overlap among native axolotle (Ambystoma mexicanum) and two exotic fishes: carp (Cyprinus carpio) and Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Xochimilco, Mexico city
    Zambrano, L.; Valiente, E.; Vander, Z.; Jake, M.
  • Bateson's hierarchical theory of learning and communication
    Bredo, E.
  • Building knowledge sharing communities using team expertise access maps (TEAM)
    Nousala, S.; Miles, A.; Kilpatrick, B.; Hall, W.P.