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- E-bokRyska, 2018
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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth―the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet― Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.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.While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions. - E-bokArabiska, 2024
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This book is a summary of the work of dozens of innovators in the field of systems modeling and teaching for thirty years. Most of these innovators are members of or influenced by MIT''s Systems Dynamics group, led by Jay Forrester, the group''s founder. One may find dozens of books on "systems modeling" and "systems thinking," but that does not deny that there is a real need for a simple and inspiring book about systems, why we sometimes find them confusing, and how we can learn to manage them better and redesign them. That is, there is nothing better than this book in your hands, dear reader.Once we understand the relationship between structure and behavior, we can understand how systems work, what causes them to produce poor results, and discover how to direct them to better patterns of behavior. As our world continues to change rapidly and become more complex, systems thinking will help us see, manage and adapt to the wide range of options before us. It is a way of thinking that gives us the freedom to identify the root causes of problems and see new opportunities.So, what is the system? A system is a collection of things, people, cells, molecules, or whatever, that are interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. A system may be collided, constrained, stimulated or directed by external forces, but the form of the system''s response to these forces is its own, and this response is rarely simple in the real world. On the other hand, we have all dealt with complex systems, long before we learned logical analysis. We are complex systems; Our bodies are wonderful examples of integrated, interconnected, self-preserving complexity. Every person we meet, every institution, every animal, garden, tree, or forest is a complex system. We have formed a working understanding of how these systems work and how to work with them intuitively, without analysis, and often without words.
