As hubs of culture, business, and innovation, cities have been placed at the center race to net zero. However, despite offering numerous opportunities decarbonize infrastructure, energy, mobility, our ways living, are complex systems that likely require tailored solutions.

Günümüzde ekolojik ve toplumsal alan ile ilgili ciddi sorunlar karşı karşıya kalmış durumdayız. İklim değişikliği, su krizi, sosyal ekonomik adaletsizlikler gibi sorunların karmaşık yapısı bu sorunlara nasıl yaklaşılması gerektiği belirsizliklere neden olmaktadır. Çünkü söz konusu tek bir disiplin bağlamında çözümü zordur; için bütüncül bakış açısının gerekli olduğu aşikârdır. Sorunların çözüle...

Donna H. Rhodes Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Building NE20, Room 388 Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] Abstract As the engineering workforce ages, skills with long development periods are lost with retiring individuals faster than are younger engineers developing the skills. Systems thinking is one such skill. Recent research, (Davidz 2006), has shown the impor...

Systems thinking in practice is a heuristic framework based upon ideas of boundary critique for guiding the use and development of tools from different traditions in managing complex realities. Three interrelated features of the framework are drawn out – contexts of systemic change, practitioners as change agents, and tools as systems constructs that can themselves change through adaptation. A ...

The systems thinking literature assumes that the concept of a system is useful in management and organizational research. Ralph D. Stacey and his collaborators, however, have questioned this. They have presented the theory of complex responsive processes (CRP) as an alternative to systems thinking. We argue that systems thinking and the CRP perspective are complementary. The CRP illuminates man...

This conceptual paper is cross-disciplinary, based on systems thinking and organisational learning theories. The paper examines critical development of the systems theory from hard systems thinking to soft systems thinking, the latter being the foundation of the organisational learning theory. Especially, this paper explores one key imperative of learning organisations: empowerment, which is cl...

Purpose: Three levels of learning developed by Gregory Bateson in the tradition of second‐order cybernetics have in‐part been translated in terms of double‐loop and triple‐loop learning, particularly in the tradition of systems thinking. Learning III and triple‐loop learning have gained less popularity since they deal with less tangible issues regarding virtues of wisdom and justice respective...