ECOLOGY: The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as “the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment
EMERGENCE: emergence refers to the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems.
SYNERGY: refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents