书目名称 | Systems Thinkers | 编辑 | Magnus Ramage,Karen Shipp | 视频video | | 概述 | Focuses on the thinkers in the field and gives both a clear account of their lives and describes their major contributions in a way that allows the reader to see the overall shape of their ideas.Inclu | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .In our profoundly complex and interconnected world, there is a pressing need for systems thinking, to consider environmental, societal and organisational issues as interconnected wholes rather than separating them into parts and looking at each in isolation. This book presents a biographical history of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. ..Systems Thinkers. discusses each thinker’s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker’s own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests..Systems thinking is highly interdisciplinary, so the thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas, including biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies. Some are core innovators in systems ideas; some have been primarily practitioners who also advanced and popularised systems ideas; others are well-known figures who drew heavily upon systems thinking although it was not their p | 出版日期 | Book 2020Latest edition | 关键词 | Cybernetics; Niklas Luhmann; Systems Ideas; Systems Thinkers; Systems Theory; Complexity | 版次 | 2 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7475-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4471-7474-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4471-7475-2 | copyright | The Open University 2020 |
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