Water security covers a wide range of issues and risks to people, the natural built environment, economy, interactions between these. This breadth creates an interconnected complexity potential for perceived intractability. Tackling water meaningfully therefore requires judgement in balancing holistic nature with reductionist understanding key processes elements. paper demonstrates that systems...

As engineering systems become more complex, the roles involved in developing and managing such systems also become more complex. Thus, there is increasing interest in educating and training engineering professionals to think more systemically. In particular, there is an increasing need to accelerate the development of senior systems engineers. As new educational degree programs in systems rapid...

Inviting further perspectives is both welcome and consistent with the rules on systems thinking presented in this significant and thoughtful paper, Systems Thinking. ‘Perspective-taking’ is the last of the four rules of DSRP following Distinction, Systems-making, and identifying Relationships. To make my own summary in terms of DSRP. First, the authors make Distinction of systems thinking in te...

This article investigates the relationship of systems thinking to action research by reviewing the main developments in systems thinking and relating these to action research. There are two main lines of thought in systems thinking that lead to wholly different conceptions about action research. The first (systems thinking) advocates thinking about real social systems that it assumes exist in t...

Many educators agree on the importance of systems thinking. Indeed, it has reached buzzword status, with many state and national educational guidelines acknowledging the importance of systems thinking skills. Recent evidence of the support for systems thinking can be seen in Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which now contain “cross-cutting concepts” that sound very much like systems th...