Abstract
Permaculture
is a design system conceptualized in Australia in the 1970s in response
to urgent environmental issues at that time. Mainstreamed via social
media in recent years, permaculture is being practiced around the world
on diverse landscapes. The study aims to discover socio-spatial
permaculture landscape networks based on a permaculture designer’s
Facebook social network. Using social network theory and landscape
ecology, the study simulates and predicts how permaculture designers
will be able to create invisible landscape corridors called “virtual
corridors.” Virtual corridors are determined by computing for the %
Linkage Strength (%LS) metric derived from data obtained from two
scoring systems developed for the study: the Social Score (SS) and the
Permaculture Score (PS). Two hundred eighty six network nodes were
initially discovered to be potential permaculture designers via Facebook
Group membership. The two scoring systems revealed the top ten network
nodes with the highest computed %LS that created virtual corridors. A
Meerkat Lite-generated sociogram overlayed on a Google Earth topographic
map animated in Camtasia Studio were used to illustrate the discovered
network. Then NetLogo was used to simulate and predict the virtual
corridor creation process. In the future, the methodology can be used to
determine potential study sites for transdisciplinary permaculture
research and study the environmental impact of permaculture projects and
initiatives on landscape patches. It will also provide practitioners
and researchers a framework to better understand how a network of
permaculture solutions can lead to macro-scale landscape patch
management.
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