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Meta‐Framework for Security in the Human Hive: Integrally Aligning Sustainability Responses to Trajectory of Evolutionary Threats
Author(s) -
Hamilton Marilyn
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.2310
Subject(s) - human security , context (archaeology) , aka , sustainability , sociology , environmental resource management , economic geography , ecology , computer science , geography , social science , economics , biology , archaeology , library science
This article explores human security (HS) in the city (aka human hive) within the context of environmental change and proposes an integrated evolutionary framework for designing city‐scale HS systems. It explores the integral city framework for HS and the environmental change in the Cosmosphere, Biosphere and Anthroposphere. Four maps reveal how humans in the city impact global environment and how HS is tightly bound with global evolution and human change. Elements of the maps include subjective/intersubjective and objective/interobjective perspectives, nested holarchies of whole systems, fractal development of holons and social holons and eight levels of complex structures. The article concludes that the integral city meta‐framework provides a HS system approach that is fractal, scaleable, global, local, holistic, comprehensive, pluralistic, interconnected, evolutionary and developmental. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.