Looking at the Nature of Complex Value: 
The Practical Treatment of the Phenomenon of Ecological Value*
Part I: From a Theoretical Point of View

0.   Introduction

	In the paper An Integrated Understanding of the Phenomenon of Ecological Value a number of claims were made as to how we might better go about this task of dealing with ecological value (whether considered in general as an instance of complex value and/or in particular as a type or set of genre/s, and/or, in dealing with a specific instance of ecological concern). In this paper let me address this task of confronting the problematic nature of ecological value from a practical perspective. (0)

	In this prior paper various points of insight were raised and various claims made for the same. Let me list some of those points in the following relatively systematized frame of reference constructed as a provisional prescription or recipe for a theoretical approach to this topic of the complex phenomenology of ecological value (and its practical intervention/s through formation/re-formation/reformation):

1:	Ecological value is an example of a complex value.
2:	Phenomenological considerations should take this complexity into account.
3:	Complexity is realized through a number of competing metaphors, and, through forms of value that source distinctive fields of value (e.g., pre-essentially non-integrated essential states, essentially integrated aesthetical states, de-ontological states, pragmatical states, hermeneutical states and/or factual states of affairs).
4:	This complexity is usually non-problematic in a practical sphere by virtue of the pre-existence of working genres of activity that deal with their harmonization.
5:	As practical philosophers we adopt a hermeneutic archaeology in order to focus on such mechanisms of mediation already present, and, in the light of the same proffer possible suggestions in a therapeutic hermeneutics for their critical re-formation/reformation.
6:	Critical re-evaluation of such interventions determining the presence/absence of a comparative existential excess in value-formation, both quantitatively and qualitatively, that arises through such processes of intentional re-normalization. 
7:	Such processes of re-normalization, through re-intervention, in a dissemination of power, normally being seen as relatively ‘non-controversial’ from a practical point of view….. And:
8. 	Modes of integration being thematized through our seeking metaphorical forms of accommodation in the operative interactions between those key-metaphors.
9:	Such investigations noting distinctions, operations, accommodations, transformations involved, etc., in such genre-directed processes…. Whilst:
10.	That in and from the articulation of genres, processes of relative malformation can usually be seen as forms of sequential mistake (through mis-sequentialization, de-sequentialization and/or contra-sequentialization as noted elsewhere). (1)

*Latest version of paper: www.homestead.com/noelshomepage/noelshomepage3.html

Under such provisional headings let me now address this topic of the practical treatment of the complexities of ecological value. (2)

In the light of these 10 point I would like to divide the rest of this essay in the following fashion: points 1-3 will be used to discuss definitions; 4-5 will be used to discuss the concept of intervention; 6 will be used to discuss a critical dimension; 7 will be used to discuss the concept of re-intervention; whilst the 8-10 will be used to discuss the mechanics involved in this dissemination of power involved in both interventions and re-interventions within the field of power or mode of life under examination which in this case involves some form of ecological examination. (3)

1.   Definitions

	In a previous essay ecological value was defined, in effect, as the value simulated/re-simulated within an environmental discourse which was defined as: a complex discourse concerning the specifically organized complexity exercised within a particular self-organized complexity that replicates itself through time within a certain locale. ‘Organized’ as a phenomenal pattern taken up within the specific expression of that self-organized equilibrium or set of equilibria. This nature, in its generality, being scoped through the limitations found or imposed upon that self-perpetuated state of complexity (such as time, space, nature of the localized environmental inputs such as weather, etc.). To this extent this replication of value is both intrinsic within a certain locale and extrinsic in its relationship to the environment that contrasts the exclusion of that locale from some other contiguous or overlapping locale, or, from the general or global sense of the environment, namely, the world at large. In other words value is replicated across time and space within the restrictions nominated both internally and externally. E.g., if a certain region has migratory birds visit it for a few months every year, and there is a loss of habitat for those birds, on their return their inevitable deaths would result in a consequent loss of  environmental richness. But, similarly, if they lose their environmental habitat outside that locale then again there is a loss of environmental richness for our locale on their non-return. To be noted that the expression richness is defined, as elsewhere both intra-modally and extra-modally. In the light of our latest example, a loss in the number of migratory birds nesting within that habitat would be an example of an intra-modal lose in richness, whereas, in contrast, the entire lose of species as a modality would be an extra-modal loss of richness (since modalities could themselves also increase in number and therein increase in this quantitative sense of richness with the introduction of new species to that same locale). Another example to illustrate this distinction would be my pleasant discovery to find, on farmland well-known to myself in New Zealand (at Seacliff), that remnant native bushland had become fenced off from the sheep and cattle, and, as a result young seedlings of the native fuscias, etc., were starting to grow along with a profusion of native grasses and ferns etc., which hitherto had been practically absent. As up to that point  in time no seedlings were maturing to replace those parent trees and those parent trees were starting to thin through old age, it was getting to the situation where an extra strong wind could have easily knocked over that entire remnant of native bush. Now that scenario has been averted. Moreover, this simple measure has restored much of the ecological richness of the original landscape despite still being in the middle of farmland. (4)

In Australia there is also the following account of a similar type of situation in the die-back of gum-trees. With the loss of wattle through the degradation of the landscape by cattle, this type of small tree or bush was more or less lost within twenty years or so through the loss of replacement seedlings, such seedlings not being able to mature. With the loss of this type of vegetation, a certain type of bird had no food for a certain period each year and its numbers consequently were greatly reduced. With a loss of this particular bird population, a certain type of insect, also eaten by the former, had free rein of the gum-trees and, as a consequence, the tall gum-trees experienced a massive degree of die-back. Given the imminent death of the gum forests even those insects, in turn, would have been doomed. The solution was to re-plant wattles under the gums and fence them off from the cattle. Within a short time this environmental niche was restored to its former richness and subsequent health. (5)

	Richness, in these two senses, therefore, can be determined through taking an inventory (intra-modally and extra-modally). We could then subject our inventory  to a comparison with earlier inventories and therein and thereby note the differences in richness if and when apparent (on statistical grounds). Or, in a more integrated sense of intuition we might like to perceive richness as a type of phenomenon thematized through oversight, through an integrated process of overseeing that locale. Let me give an example. In my recent travels around the world I stayed at the York Youth Hostel on the outskirts of York in England. Seen outside their dining room window they have a patch of ground fenced off by hedges that has been allowed to grow au natural; to re-seed itself with native grasses, etc. The vegetation on the ground was thicker and higher above the surface than the clipped grass lawns, a darker green in colour, looked more damp and moist, and, all the wild life seem to make a beeline for this place. Squirrel cavorted in the sun, many birds could be seen ‘weeding’ the grasses of worms and other insects, and, if I were the local cat, I too would have made a beeline to such an oasis of ecological richness. One look and you could see the difference. Reading the sign that this was a ‘nature reserve’ would merely have confirmed your intuition in that regard. The point that needs to be made here is that environmental richness can be determined through the use of many different perspectives that, hopefully, would find some general degree of confirmative accommodation and agreement (assuming that those evaluative perspectives are adequately interrelated, i.e., properly, appropriately and validly formulated, exercised and effectively accommodated [and, therein, potentially open to various transformational pathways of interrelation through those corresponding translational mechanisms]). (6)

	Preservation, conservation, restoration, natural continuation, etc., are all ecological concepts concerned with the adequate replication of environmental richness. As noted this is both intrinsic and extrinsic in orientation. In the former, in and through some adequate evaluative perspective, richness is ascertained as either stable, increasing or decreasing in comparative richness within a certain locale. In the  latter our concern is in evaluating the richness of relationships had between that locale and some other locale or the global environment treated as a general environmental background. (7)

	Value is determined through differentiation and/or integration of our symbolic representation of a certain locale through a body of texts re-presenting/representing that particular or specific locale. Symbolic representations of the same locale or same general locale should find some degree of transformational isomorphic invariance in our translation from one format to some other concerned to some degree or other with that same locale or territory. Non-isomorphic anomalies in transformation should find explanation (as to why there is no symmetry in that regard with accounts conducted in other perspectives). E.g., in our example of the die-back of gum-trees, for a period, with the explosion of insect numbers attacking those gums, we might argue that there has been an increased ecological richness within that particular modality. However, such a finding translated to our symbolic understanding of that locale would result in a serious misreading of that locale. Furthermore, it could be shown that if that situation continued in that manner then the insect-numbers themselves would dramatically drop when the number of gum-trees were seriously reduced (as a result of that explosion in insect numbers). Thus, in this regard, this anomalous ricness could be rectified through that longer term type of account. Now, we need to define that (phenomenal-phenomenological) nature of value to that extent this task is possible in order to account for a combined definition of ecological value (having already just defined the nature of ecological value and the general nature of this type of  ascertainment). (8)

	Value arises as a phenomenological excess in our dealing with the intentional simulation/re-simulation of that under consideration that then can be subjected to some form of evaluation. In all forms of intentional engagement, a string of judgments are made in the process of determining and informing that intentional process. On a superficial level we use the rhetorical setting up of a set of metaphorical tropes to conduct this type of process. So, e.g., the moon looks like a pale blue cheese, or, looks like the figure of an old man or rabbit. Moreover, our approach is also more deeply based in the distinctive manner of the complexity invoked in our approaching this topic in the manner that is to-be-adopted-and-adapted. We might look at it in a scientific perspective and invoke a pre-essential-essential description in line with disciplines of such a practice-type (such as astronomical science, physics, and/or chemistry, etc.), or, merely describe it in non-scientific terms as round and pale, indeed, like a blue (or green), pale, round cheese. Closer to home we might look at a certain environmental local or niche as a source to be exploited in some form or other, i.e., as resource to be treated in pragmatical terms of reference. Or, as possessing a sublime vista with comparatively greater aesthetical values, etc. in comparison to some other region nearby As already noted complexity is the order of the day (by virtue of the same transcendental machinery underlying all forms of judgment and thence their uniquely distinctive value formations through the phenomenological excesses therein devolved [in and through their distinctive matrices of privilege/de-privilege]). (9)

	With the above in mind, how might we define value? As that intentional excess that devolves in intentional simulation/re-simulation above and beyond the richness of input being contributed to the formation of that process of evaluation. The sense/s of simulation/re-simulation invoking an overall transcendental suspension to the extent that we neither privilege a so-called external world nor an implied correlative internal-world. Instead, we make no distinction in that regard and merely attend to the phenomenal-phenomenological surpluses that ensure in the processes of valuation and the evaluation of those same processes (wherein value, as a relative excess, itself is to be determined). All this could be determined intuitively and/or through more closely supervised forms of calculation (through noting [integrationally treated and/or differentially treated forms of] inventorial richness, etc.). (10)

	Thus a definition of ecological value might take the following type of formula: as an intentional surplus realized in and through processes of simulation and/or re-simulation of an environmental discourse concerned with the relative replication and/or relative non-replication of environmental richness within a certain locale (where that locale could be treated as either local or as global in range). Or, more simply, we might like to define it broadly as that differential in inventorial richness between the historical potentiality of a locale and its actual or current representative evaluation. (11)

2.   Intervention

	All intentionally formulated acts that make a difference to or are intended to make a difference in inventorial richness are to be classed as interventions (be those intended differences short-term or long-term in temporal extent). All interventions occur in and through the exercise of meta-textual genre, genres or sets of competing genre/s. In the historical course of intervening, various accommodations will have been made with respect to the environmental values of both a locale and its interactions within a globalized sense of the environment at large. Intentional determination usually involves doing x rather than y or v.v., or, not doing x and not doing y but doing z, etc., hence this meta-textual, pre-existent sense of accommodation of some form of a status quo, etc., in this regard. E.g., if one were chop down all the trees in a certain locale there would no firewood to be collected there in future. But if that fact is adequately recognized, then not all trees would be chopped down. Or, indeed, wood from trees might be harvested instead rather than obtained through the complete appropriation of all the wood contained within a tree. Or, too, trees might be planted to replace those fully appropriated trees, etc. Or, if farmland is required then a forest might be removed, or, if a forest is to be planted then farmland might be appropriated. The accommodation and status quo that is reached here is to what extent there is x or y or neither x nor y but z, etc. It could be argued (that this sense of) accommodation is realized through the form and format of intentionality found exercised in that regard to that specific locale (by virtue of the accumulative weight of collective resolutions of intentional intent habitually operating in that intentional direction). Now accommodations are just that ‘accommodations’ by virtue of the fact that in a ‘pool’ of various motives, intentions, directives, objectives, etc., our time in that regard is utilized in that type of manner as resolved intentionally (whether treated collectively and/or individually). So, e.g., butchers butcher meat, and, foresters chop wood, and, farmers farm the land, etc., and, that between them there is a competition for resources, labour and capital, etc. Thence the distinctive nature of the sum of interventions exercised and currently realized within a certain locale assuming one has arrived at a static status quo (or a status quo in the form of a repeated pattern of activity). In each locale, according to our investigative perspective/s, we should meet a recognition of the general impact of the current accumulation of intentionally directed interventions, and, with a deeper degree of examination we should also come to a point where we can also recognize the habitual exercise of certain agreements being all relevant parties (wherein competing intentions are relatively harmonized or temporally resolved or deferred). Moreover, we can also usually assume that the same pattern of such practices and agreements will continued to be exercised in the same manner to the same degree, more or less, if we can also assume that the ecological richness of that locale is adequate, more or less, to the currently quantified impact of that set of interventions. In this type of consequential analysis, however, when such assumptions are broken or need to be re-written, we are more often than not being alerted to the adverse ecological health of that locale or possible adverse consequences that could stem from those more recent interventions (given that no resource historically, to date, is actually infinite in the actual scope of its potential exploitation, and, that human nature is more often than not given over to an ongoing proliferation of practices [in a hyper-economy till such a point in time the resources of a locale are relatively depleted or actually exhausted]). (12)

	In a locale, resources are transferred and/or transformed within that locale or shifted to some other locale. This impacts upon the ecological richness of that locale. Ideally, impacts should be minimal or positive and not negative in scope. In a minimalist style of intervention there is a relative preservation of ecological richness. If a certain habitat or environmental niche is valued and thought to be seriously impaired and possibly could be lost then interventions that maintain the current degree of ecological richness can be seen as a process of conservation. Or, if an eco-system is being repaired then we enter into a process of restoration. Or, should it happen that an environmental niche in a certain environmental locale is relatively non-impacted upon by human intervention/re-intervention then we might merely perceive that locale as regenerating through a process of natural continuation. Generally, ecological re-assessment of a locale is going to be conducted through a process of re-evaluation with concomitant processes of re-intervention should there be a need for the same. Ideally, the ecological standard should be for a process of minimized if not minimal ecological impact. If our interventions were already of a preservative or a conservative nature there would be little need for an ecological awareness of the relatively absent impact of such an ecological footprint in such an environmental locale in question (be that an environmental niche or a global sense of the environmental). In this light ecological awareness is an understanding of the impact of environmental intervention along with, if present, an understanding of  the consequential impact of environmental re-intervention (where changes in practices and accommodations, etc., are enacted in order to preserve or conserve or restore past, current and/or prospective modes of environmental richness). Such an awareness necessitates the development and exercise of a critical ecological dimension in both our theoretical and practical research! (13)

3.   Critical Dimension

	First, let me ask what exactly is a critical dimension? It is that outlook brought to our investigations that critically reflects upon the textual representation, more or less, of our presentations, re-presentations and representations assembled to date; i.e., a critical process dealing with the relevant content presented. That content being apparent phenomenal-phenomenological ‘evidence’ examined, re-examined and textually produced and re-produced in an essentially representative form and format (in keeping with the relevant evidence and conventions of the genre or set of genres adopted and adapted to that situation-to-hand. By critical reflection is meant examining in a critical process the ideality of our representations versus the ideality of the type of examination expected in the adoption and adaptation of the rules of that genre or set of genres expected to be invoked and actually invoked in that treatment of that type of situation by the originator of that type of investigation. A critical process dealing with the critically treated representation of content. By critical process is meant the overall transcendental suspension of the textual representation of that content. Hence critical reflection. In effect we are hermeneutically looking at a series of textual statements, systematically and/or non-systematically, in the light of the meta-textual conventions adopted and adapted in that type of situation as exercised by the originator and/or reviewer of those relevant texts. Moreover, our critical review involves the parallel counter-running of textually constructed strands on both textual, meta-textual and inter-textual-metatextual levels of examination. In the process a simple or complex representation is formed reflecting the simple or complex nature of the content of our investigations within which apparent anomalies are intuitively appreciated and recognized. A critical process of rectification dialectically resolving the anomalous nature of those anomalies found to be present to that extent currently possible and thought obtainable. Our content being approached and divided between a factual-like representation of the situation-brought-to-hand (through the simulation of its representations/representations of its simulations) and the richness of harmonization already resident in that type of situation as realized through an apposite panorama of perspectives adopted and adapted in that meta-textual process in retrospective, attentive and prospective forms of temporal orientation. In other words, anomalies are experienced between texts, meta-texts, inter-texts-metatexts, and, between different types of values invoked, and, the current ideality of that apparent reality and the reality of that invoked ideality. In effect, rectification is a harmonization within and/or between strands of text in some form or other conducted under the auspices of an overall transcendental suspension (and its parallelization of texts, etc.). (14)

	Rectification is exercised in all processes of critical reflection. In our ecological concerns a second level of critique is entered into, namely, the re-nomalization of an environmental niche or the general environmental background (as the world-at-large) as simulated in and through our textual representations of the same. In discerning the imputed modal normality of the same, both quantitatively and qualitatively, we also form an understanding how in its current ideality an ecological need might arise that seeks to address that retrospectively, currently and/or prospectively impoverished differential as experienced-by-us. Thence a shift from archaeological hermeneutics to therapeutic hermeneutics. An archaeological hermeneutics examining the sedimentation of relevant texts and instituting a therapeutic hermeneutics in addressing our experience of anomalous textual situations. This therapeutic program utilizing trends in the patterns of hermeneutic re-normalization already apparently exercised to date and extrapolating from the same to a program of re-normalization. In the process procedures of re-augmentation are proposed in order to practically preserve, conserve, restore and/or naturally continue that situation-to-hand when and where relevant and practicable. Simply, we recognize past patterns of re-normalization, formulate current and prospective patterns of therapeutic re-normalization by formulating proposals of augmentation, effectively, proposals of re-augmentation in the light of apparent trends and relative innovations in our critical re-simulation of the simulation of those ecological representations. Thence the crucial relationship between an archaeological hermeneutics and a therapeutic hermeneutics. (15)

	Let me give simple examples of the various states involved in this type of critical reflection. Let us say we have a body of descriptive statements and some anomalies are therein noted.  We note processes of resolution in the past as they might relate to similar issues today. Let us say we are looking at various historically conducted studies dealing with length of glaciers, amount of snowfall over their catchment areas, average temperatures at set-points in those catchments, ratios of various atmospheric gases at the same time, etc. Inspected closely we might note various trends and probable interconnections. We might also suspect and discover the presence of certain anomalies (that seem to defy expectations, etc.). In order to resolve such anomalous textually simulated features we might re-check our evidence and rectify the same when and where possible; note differences between short-term trends and possible trends of a medium or long term nature, etc; invoke modifications in our understandings or introduce incrementally-based innovations when and where possible. A case might be able to be presented in which certain gases are thought to be implicated in general temperatures rising or falling, in turn, reflected in the length of those glaciers (assuming hotter temperatures result in both less snow and shortened glaciers). Such ongoing emissions might well be treated as pollutants and from previous campaigns for dealing with pollution a new campaign might wish to adopt and adapt similar strategies with a range of re-interventions that are essentially re-augmentations of what is already to hand to some extent or other. Such patterns of resolutions adopting and adapting previous forms of similar hermeneutic accommodation in this regard (hence the invocation and association of our hermeneutic archaeology and therapeutic hermeneutics). Obviously, if it were the case that increased levels of certain atmospheric gases were thought to be implicated in a general process of global warming then the invocation of a reversal in the ratio of those same greenhouse gases might be realized in a reversal of that trend. Moreover, such a pattern of re-augmentation would be modeled to some extend on previous processes of augmentation dealing with the diminution and reversal of other forms of pollution. So, if the problems of smog, e.g., as once found in say London, can be addressed through a removal of domestic coal-fires, etc., then with similar problems we would expect them to be re-addressed in a similar fashion. Hence this concept of re-augmentation (in our therapeutic building upon the past as discerned in and through our archeological hermeneutics). So, if petrol-based cars were to contribute a large proportion of such greenhouse gases then the obvious implication would be to remove the same from our roads or adopt some other set of strategies with the same effect (such as having this type of car replaced by ones that use diesel, or hybrids or purely of an electric nature, etc., and/or through the promotion of public forms of transport or car-pooling, or, through the use of other strategies such as being closer to one’s place of employment, working from home, shopping once a month rather than once a week, etc., etc.). (16)

	Our critical strategy, therefore, is to carefully and closely simulate our environmental situation under investigation in a body of texts that represent the same. Rectify apparent anomalies (textually, meta-textually and inter-textually-metatextually found to exist in that representation), and, formulate a process of re-normalization, and, thereby, re-intervene through processes of re-augmentation in the light of our practical understanding of that thematized sense of re-normalization. (17)

4.   Re-Intervention

	How might processes of re-intervention be approached? Through building on processes of augmentation already to-hand, and, instituting incrementally based processes of innovation when and where thought to be relevant for the re-normalization of that situation-to-hand under investigation. And how might that program of critical re-intervention in turn be critically reflected upon? By the re-institution of the same type of reflections, etc., and their critical call for re-re-intervention, etc. Of course the ‘etc.’ here is the crucial element since the same type of problems, processes of rectification, same goals of re-normalization and patterns of re-intervention do not necessarily relocate themselves from one series of problems to some other however phenomenally-phenomenologically close they might be in a position to merely dictate proposals of incremental innovation. Yet, that is where we begin, and, hopefully, where we end (with successful missions of re-normalization) since we must start only from that position we have already arrived at and can re-discover, therein, what is already to-hand in that very here-and-now! (18)

5.   Dissemination of Power

	Rectification, re-normalization and re-augmentation can only be put in play through the adequate dissemination of power! Let me elaborate upon this important observation. (19)

	The recognition, adoption and adaptation of genre-conventions is a cooperative affair. Similarly the formulation of processes of re-normalization. Similarly, again, the practice of a process of re-intervention. Thence the pressing need for the important study of the dissemination of power in order to adequately understand this necessary ingredient in such programs (be they ecological or non-ecological in orientation). (20)

	How is the inter-subjective dissemination of power implicated in such programs? Because our understanding of the world is mediated through the interactions of others (through the sharing of genres, etc.), and, our re-understanding of the same world can only be re-instituted through the same inter-subjective processes of mediation. Thence this relatively democratic basis underlying the dissemination of power despite asymmetries in the same. Moreover, by virtue of this need for co-operation, co-opting and being co-opted, etc., power is disseminated in a field whose projections of power and resistance are translated to and transformed by and through the relevant loci in that field, namely, agents operating within and between environmental niches, locales all within a general, global sense of the environmental-world-at-large. (21)

	How exactly is power disseminated? By its translated inception and transformed and transferred reception. The potential differences across such inductive and transformational gaps being equal to the sense of resistance found therein to manifest themselves in each and every moment of such transmission. Thence dissemination is a replicated affair, albeit with continually re-implemented processes of micro-innovation and/or radical disruption. Dissemination continuing through processes of relative continuity of replication, whereas, in contrast, a non-dissemination of power intervenes in and through process of relative non-continuity or effective disruption. Power demands replication and cannot be projected otherwise! Thence, in environmental projects of re-normalization, such projects and their projected processes of re-intervention must elicit to some extent the effective cooperation of the relevant parties participating in those fields of concern. Through the eliciting of such co-operation no party, therefore, can be absolutely active in that regard. Conversely, in the actual disseminated projection of power through intervention/re-intervention no party, therefore, can be absolutely passive. A completely passive party would project no power, disrupting all processes of both intervention and re-intervention. Hence the minimal democratic-like basis in the eliciting of such co-operation, etc. Thence the democratic element in the thematization and projection of an augmented sense of intervention, i.e., re-intervention. Consequently, greater democratically-oriented instigated inauguration of critical processes of ecological appreciation and re-intervention better facilitate this type of project and all other forms of projection! Indeed, it cannot but be said that a refinement of an ecological project is naturally advanced through the implementation of greater democratic forms of input and involvement! (22)

6.   Overview and Conclusion

	In this short paper I have briefly looked at the practical implementation of an ecological process of re-normalization from the perspective of a theoretical point of view. I argued that an ecological locale or a global sense of the environment-at-large can be represented textually (through an adequate set of relevant statements to that effect). Therein, we seek the natural continuation, preservation, restoration and/or conservation of the modal richness potentially possible to obtain in that region of concern. Modal richness being addressed both quantitatively through discerning the apparent or approximate number of modes that were or are actively participating in the ecology of that region, and, qualitatively through discerning the degree to which those modes have or have had a sense of presence in that total field. A loss of ecological richness could be defined as a relative loss of richness occurring therein in both senses of that expression. A critical dimension was created through the imposition of an adequate overall transcendental suspension wherein our representation of the ecology of that region is mirrored and countered-mirrored in and through that overall suspension. Anomalies, to that extent possible, are to be resolved. Processes of rectification therein ensuing. On a textual level we attempt to resolve factual or factual-like anomalies. On a meta-textual level we seek to dialectically resolve conventional patterns of behaviour that might promote a greater degree of ecological richness and/or promote greater degrees of harmonization in those patterns of harmonization already present metaphorical/phenomenally in our (complex) phenomenological reading/s of that environmental region. From such insights we then attempt to formulate patterns of re-intervention that we hope will ecologically enhance the overall value of that ecological region under the focus of our current concern. Either intervening through the adoption and adaptation of prior patterns of intervention and/or the adoption and adaptation of incremental innovations within the same, although, correctly, all patterns of intervention are going to be processes of re-intervention through the continual innovations embedded within the presentation/re-presentation of such processes given the ongoing adaptation of such genre conventions. Re-interventions being instituted in the light of proposals for re-normalization and their consequent patterns of re-augmentation brought to bear upon those regions of our ecological concern. Hence our formula of rectification, re-normalization and re-augmentation. That all such continuities and discontinuities, whether positive and/or negative in ecological value, are disseminated through the democratic-like basis of power wherein projects are transformed and/or disrupted through the reproductive will or non-reproductive will of  intentional subjects located in that environmental locale or global environment. Thence the need to elicit the necessary degree of co-operation of all relevant intentional subjects located in that field of concern! That, ultimately, greater ecological value will translate into a greater collective and individual freedom of the individual in the world-at-large. Since the world is our ‘home’ and the richness of this world-at-large to-hand automatically augments the collective and individual power of the person, to some extent or other, through the greater richness of the possibilities that prevail in an ecologically richer world. Because our collective and individual senses of freedom of possibility involved in our being-in-this-world will directly reflect the relative ecological health or non-health of that part of the world we be resident in along with ‘our’ overall relationship or lack of an overall relationship to ‘our-world’ in this more global sense! That the recognition of the need for our ecological health in this world is better facilitated and disseminated through the facilitation and dissemination of a greater degree of democratic participation. Thence those factors and processes that also promote a greater degree of democratization (such as the overall increase in wealth along with a wider distribution of that economic surplus; political franchisement; the raising of social consciousness; the non-distorted dissemination of information through the media; the promotion of an increased access to education and health resources for all members of that society and the relative establishment of a secure middle class, etc.) should all contribute to a greater degree of ecological awareness and practice (despite the possible co-presence of competing trends of an increased consumerism of a hyper-economic nature, etc.). The positive establishment and re-establishment of ecological value and power being enhanced and stabilized through our attention to the sequential nature of error in our interpretation and re-interpretation of the conventional rules of genres as noted previously. Our representative version and visions of ecological reality being better inventoried and systematically represented and, therein, open to a better understanding (theoretically, practically and critically), etc, through the use of all our critical tools. Hence the close formulation of our inventories through the use of (modal) distinctions, operations therein, accommodations and transformations between the same, etc., along with the co-examinations of the different metaphorical tropes in use, etc. (23)

	To summarize the key provisional conclusions made by this essay on practical ecological value from a theoretical point of view, let me proffer the following formula: the complex nature of ecological value is adequately promoted through a proper, appropriate and valid  hermeneutic archaeology and therapeutic hermeneutics in which prior patterns of harmonization are to be built upon through incremental processes of conventional adoption and adaptation channeled by means of textual rectification, the thematization of re-normalization and the subsequent re-interventions of re-augmentation all facilitated by a more democratic approach to the dissemination of power in general and ecological empowerment in particular. (24)

	Moving on from where we are and continually setting out to find an ecological richness through processes of re-negotiation either through allowing things to replicate through a process of natural continuation or intervening through processes of preservation, conservation and/or restoration. (25) 

	    Noël Tointon, Sydney, 24.7.08.