Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. Young, Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at University of California, Santa Barbara 'Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. This book is destined to shape our understanding of socio-ecological systems in the years to come in much the same way that Silent Spring taught us to understand the nature of ecosystems in the 1960s and 1970s.' Oran R. 'The publication of Thinking in Systems is a landmark. 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. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. 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. Some of the biggest problems facing the world-war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation-are essentially system failures. 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. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. 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. And this is the best book of its kind."-Hunter Lovins " Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. "This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."- Forbes The classic book on systems thinking-with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!
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