Thinking in systems: a primer
Thinking in systems: a primer
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系统思考：入门
DOI：
10.4324/9781849773386
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Donella H. Meadows
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作者：
Diana Wright;Donella H. Meadows
在她担任国际畅销书《增长的极限》（Limits to Growth）的主要作者之后的几年里，Donella Meadows一直是环境和社会分析的先驱，直到她在2001年英年早逝。《系统思维》是一本简洁而重要的书，为从个人到全球的问题解决提供了洞察力。由可持续发展研究所的戴安娜·赖特编辑，这本重要的入门书将系统思维从计算机和方程的领域带到了有形的世界，向读者展示了如何发展地球仪的思想领袖认为对21世纪生活至关重要的系统思维技能。世界面临的一些最大的问题--战争、饥饿、贫困和环境恶化--本质上是系统失灵。它们不能通过孤立地修复一个部分来解决，因为即使是看似微不足道的细节也有巨大的力量来破坏过于狭隘的思维的最佳努力。虽然读者将学习系统思维的概念工具和方法，但本书的核心比方法论更重要。Donella Meadows以培养积极成果而闻名，因为她深入研究了全球困境背后的科学。她提醒读者注意什么是重要的，而不仅仅是什么是可量化的，保持谦虚，并保持学习者。在一个日益复杂、拥挤和相互依赖的世界里，系统思维帮助读者避免困惑和无助，这是找到积极有效解决方案的第一步。
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.