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responsibility diffusion and thus inefficient resource management. This, consequently, makes clear that the grid challenge concerning implementation and integration of grids lies in the social embedding of the micro and macro level phenomena: i) the attitude/socialisation based on the security/risk/profit psychology of the individual, and ii) the culture of the embedding institution and society based on the interaction of the autopoietic social subsystems. This is similar for the renewables as well as the grid IT sector and also has huge implications for any other complex resource exploitation network sector. Considering the macro level more in detail reveals that the autopoietic subsystems theory describes the social environment best. Unfortunately, the social subsystems i) religion, ii) education, iii) science, iv) art, v) economy, vi) jurisdiction, and vii) policy, have a more or less incompatible code of communication which leads to the *Tragedy of the Autopoietic Social Subsystems* and thus to large inconsistencies and blockings. Consequently, the challenge lies in the integration of autopoietic subsystems towards a working society on the micro and macro level by i) approaching the subsystem stickiness of individuals, and ii) the soft bridging of subsystems. In the daily work individuals have first to realize their own working and borders of their and other social subsystems. In a second step the possible bridges between social subsystems need to be realized and concrete ways to circumvent inherent blockings have to be explored to reach the level of a joined effort realization. On the micro level the security/risk/profit psychology matrix plays the major role since for the individual each internalization of a new technology is based on a positive relation between the security/risk/profit involved. Even for clear win-win situations the phenomenon of responsibility diffusion can appear. Since individuals have to balance constantly between the invironment and the environment, i.e. between psychology and social subsystems, there appears also a hard to tackle *Tragedy of the Security/Risk/Profit Psychology*. Consequently, the challenge on the micro and macro level are given by i) the individual perception and the individual well being, and ii) the procedural and institutionalized careful management. I.e. for the daily work that the individual need to rationalize its own behavioural background and invironmental constituency, and that institutions need to accept and develop the invironment of their employees as well as the psychological status of the environment they create. Thus, the creation of awareness might not change the individual but by team formation with different characters and corresponding procedures, the openness in an

institutionalized form can increase the internalization of new technologies.

Consequently, to overcome the challenges put forward by the *Tragedy of the Systems Complexity*, and the *Classic* and *Inverse Tragedy of the Commons* with its base tragedies, the Tragedy of Autopoietic Social Subsystems and the *Tragedy of Security/Risk/Profit Psychology* in the renewable energy and grid IT sector, a *Sustained Renewability* approach in a holistic ecology-like manner combining the micro and macro level is crucial for in principle every resource and exploitation network. The interdisciplinary field of *Human Ecology* gives a framework also for the understanding and approaching of the *Classic* and *Inverse Tragedy of the Commons* for direct guidelines in the day-to-day management of grids as well as other areas and combine the above into a unified framework. Theoretically, the analysis carried out here showed that it is necessary to extent the classical *Human Ecology* triangle to a rectangle with i) the invironment ii) the individual, iii) the society, and iv) the environment. Thus, from the pure theoretical viewpoint, not only complete consistency was reached proving the validity of the arguments, but also access to a "tool box" – which has been used already successfully – was gained. This is important for generalization and justification of The worldwide amount of energy and IT resources to sustain human life is – with the classic exploitation and usage strategies – fast reaching the limits and carrying capacity. Nevertheless, huge underused energy and IT resources are obviously available and often even renewable on a human scale. Therefore, the *Tragedy of Systemic Complexity* already on the technical level and the *Inverse Tragedy of the Commons* have to be overcome for the renewable energy as well as the grid IT sectors by combining solutions of the systemic resource and exploitation networks with solutions of all autopoietic social subsystems on a macro level as well as the psychology of individuals on the micro level, i.e. a technical systemic solution is combined with an extended *Human Ecology* paradigm. Thus, not only advanced underused resources can be implemented and internalized, but also *Sustained Renewability*, i.e. a long lasting resource exploitation and renewable cycles can be managed – for on human scales – large time spans with paradisiacal opportunities for the life on earth.

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