Using Systems Thinking to Understand and Enlarge Mental Models: Helping the Transition to a Sustainable World
Using Systems Thinking to Understand and Enlarge Mental Models: Helping the Transition to a Sustainable World
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DOI：
10.3390/systems6020015
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Garrity, Edward J.
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作者：
Garrity, Edward J.
可持续性和气候变化是工业世界对增长的不懈追求所带来的巨大全球性问题。向可持续发展的世界过渡需要理解公民的思维模式和我们对短期回报的依赖。本文使用因果循环建模（CLD）来描述一般的，流行的公民观点，并提出一个更广泛的心理模型，考虑到自然世界和可持续发展。描绘更广泛观点的企业盈利模式承认并描述了政治压力对我们社会、经济和生态系统的重要影响。采用更广泛的思维模式可以帮助工业化国家设计更好的政策，以实现国家和联合国的可持续发展目标。
Sustainability and climate change are massive global problems that stem from the industrial world's relentless pursuit of growth. Transitioning to a sustainable world requires understanding citizen mental models and our addiction to short-term rewards. This paper uses causal loop diagramming (CLD) to describe the general, prevailing citizen viewpoint and to propose a wider mental model that takes the natural world and sustainability into account. The corporate profit model that depicts the wider view acknowledges and describes the important impacts and influences of political pressure on our social, economic, and ecological systems. Adopting the wider mental model can help the industrialized world design better policy to achieve both national and United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals.