Human communities are ecosystems. Ecosystems are biological… - Jay Lemke

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Human communities are ecosystems. Ecosystems are biological, chemical and physical systems. The physics, chemistry and biology of complex self-organizing systems can tell us much that is useful about human communities: about the conditions necessary for the existence of human communities, about the properties human communities 'inherit' because they are special cases of more general kinds of systems, particularly ecosystems.

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(born 1946) is an American physicist, and professor of education at the University of Michigan.

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