Importantly, the process is rooted in long-held cultural and community values passed down from generation to generation, such as "Mottainai"(what a shame to waste), "Kodomono tameni" (for future generations), and "Banbutsu" (interconnectedness), inserted into a contemporary environmental context.
Seen largely as a tool for describing systems of interactions and interconnectedness between groups of actors, network analysis is a contested area, and there are many definitions of what a network is (Thatcher 1998).
This is part of what the pope calls an "integral ecology" that recognizes an interconnectedness between the environment and human beings and is inseparable from the common good.
Thus Islam teaches an interconnectedness between the environment and human beings.
The fields McGuire works in suggest an interconnectedness similar to "Here" 's.
I experience an interconnectedness with the environment around me, heightened by the wind, sun and rain.
"It creates an interconnectedness and allows students to really get to know each other.
But there is also, he suggested, "an interconnectedness" among others in the family which frustrates and tantalizes American investigators.
What's more, the interconnectedness of the global financial system, the concentration of banking, places the domino-like contagion on the front stoop of just about any nation, any institution, any individual.
"Its elements might include online voting, e-dialogue between representatives and those represented, increased interconnectedness between the functions of representation, scrutiny and legislation, multiple concepts of what is a constituency, flexibility about what is debated when and how, and a much more intense pace for invention and adaptation".
The report, released on Monday, suggests that because of the world's interconnectedness, what might have in the past been considered to be a local problem can quickly become a global problem.
