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  title info:
    title: Social Systems and Design
  name:
    name part: Metcalf, Gary S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 238 p. 29 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: We live in the worlds that we help to create every day. Every activity either supports an existing system or effects some change, however small. But is it possible to consciously create the worlds in which we want to live? This volume brings together systems theorists and practitioners who have worked on that question for decades. It explores connections between design and systems ideas to explain why some efforts have been more successful than others, and what is needed if we are to move forward. It offers reflections on early and large-scale attempts at impacting societal systems, as well as proposals for taking those ideas into the future. Examples date back to the Club of Rome in the 1960s and look forward to the creation of ecologically sustainable systems in the future. They address the need for collaboration and inclusion in settings from communities to corporations. And while theories are presented as support for the examples, they are explained in practical ways meant to be accessible both to students and to general readers.
  table of contents: 1 Creating Social Systems (Gary S. Metcalf) -- 2 An Epic Learning Journey: From the Club of Rome to Dialogic Design Science and DEMOSOPHIA (Alexander N. Christakis) -- 3 Cybernetics of Governance: The Cybersyn Project 1971–1973 (Raul Espejo) -- 4 Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social Systems (Peter H. Jones) -- 5 The Theory and Practice of Third Phase Science (Ken C. Bausch) -- 6 Designing the Means for Governing the Commons (Thomas R. Flanagan) -- 7 Co-laboratories of Democracy: Best Choices for Designing Sustainable Futures (Yiannis Laouris, Kevin M. C. Dye, Marios Michaelides, and Alexander, N. Christakis) -- 8 Better Late than Never: Open Systems Theory’s Plan to Deal with Climate Change (Merrelyn Emery) -- 9 Social Systems Design in Organizational Change (Doug Walton).
  note: edited by Gary S. Metcalf.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics, general
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences, general
  classification: HB71-74
  classification: 330
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Translational Systems Sciences, 1
  identifier: 9784431544784
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54478-4
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    record creation date: 140306
    record change date: 20151204170725.0
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