ecocycle

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English

Etymology

From eco- +‎ cycle.

Noun

ecocycle (plural ecocycles)

  1. An ecological cycle.
    • 2012, Timothy Beatley, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, Island Press, page 234:
      A number of actions in support of ecocycle balancing have already occurred.
    • 2012, David Hurst, The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World, Columbia University Press, page 12:
      The New Ecology of Leadership is in five parts, each of which deals with different aspects of the mental model I call the ecocycle.
    • 2017, Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Pluto Press, page 17:
      Also there was a Canadian ecologist Crawford ‘Buzz’ Holling, who was just at that time propounding his four-fold ‘ecocycle’: a now celebrated sequence of transformations that was uncannily similar (in its underlying dynamics) to the patterns traced out in the cultural theory that was implicit in Mary Douglas’ early work and in Rubbish Theory, and which was made explicit in her later work and in my 1990 book (with Richard Ellis and Aaron Wildavsky) Cultural Theory.