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THINKING IN SYSTEMS: A PRIMER

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING 2008Description: xlll, 218ISBN:
  • 978-1-60358-055-7
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 003/MEA
Summary: Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research Management 003/MEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SYSTEM ANALYSIS-SIMULATION METHODS, DECISION MAKING-SIMULATION METHODS, CRITICAL THINKING-SIMULATION METHODS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-SIMULATION METHODS, SOCIAL SCIENCES-SIMULATION METHODS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT-ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS-SIMULATION METHODS, POPULATION-ECONOMIC ASPECTS-SIMULATION METHODS, POLLUTION-ECONOMIC ASPECTS-SIMULATION METHODS, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION-SIMULATION METHODS SICSR-B-19164

Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.
Some of the biggest problems facing the world war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.

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