Thinking in Systems provides an introduction to systems thinking by Donella Meadows, the main author of the 1972 report The Limits to Growth, and describes...
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a way of exploring and developing effective action in complex contexts, enabling systems change. Systems thinking draws on and contributes to systems...
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Donella Meadows (category American systems scientists)
and Thinking In Systems: A Primer. Born in Elgin, Illinois, Meadows was educated in science, receiving a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963...
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Conceptual System". Cognitive Science. 4 (2): 195–208. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog0402_4. S2CID 8800759. Dana Meadows (1993) Thinking In Systems: A Primer Donella...
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Twelve leverage points (redirect from Donella Meadows' nine leverage points to intervene in a system)
Intervene in a System," by Donella Meadows, published in a software development context Meadows, Donella H. 2008. Thinking in Systems : A Primer, Chelsea...
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Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-231135-5. Meadows, Donella. (2008). Thinking in Systems: A Primer....
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Belief (redirect from Belief systems)
(2008) Thinking in Systems: A Primer Archived 2 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine p.11, as quoted by Tim Rettig (2017) Belief Systems: what they are and...
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Discount Rule of 16 Rule of three (statistics) Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 33 (box "Hint on reinforcing...
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Doubling time (category Mathematics in medicine)
Half-life Relative growth rate Rule of 72 Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 33 (box "Hint on reinforcing...
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ISBN 9781138935419. Donella Meadows, edited by Diana Wright, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 146 (ISBN 9781603580557)...
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Positive feedback (redirect from Cumulative change in variables)
H. (2009). Thinking in systems : a primer. London: Earthscan. ISBN 9786000014056. US 1113149, Armstrong, E. H., "Wireless receiving system", published...
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Degrowth (section Systems theoretical critique)
2013.788935. Meadows, Donella H. (2008). Wright, Diana (ed.). Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Chelsea Green Publishing. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-60358-055-7. "The...
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Circular economy (category Financial systems)
Fundamental Plan for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (PDF) Meadows, Donella H. (2008). Thinking In Systems: A Primer. Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 9781603580557...
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when it runs in memory. The field is related to systems thinking, machine logic, and systems engineering. Systems theory is manifest in the work of practitioners...
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purpose and is expressed in its functioning. Systems are the subjects of study of systems theory and other systems sciences. Systems have several common properties...
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integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking principles to organize this body...
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Chaos theory (redirect from Chaotic behavior in systems)
millisecond; weather systems, a few days (unproven); the inner solar system, 4 to 5 million years. In chaotic systems, the uncertainty in a forecast increases...
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StochSD (category Official website not in Wikidata)
(1968). Principles of Systems. Pegasus Communications. ISBN 9781883823412. Meadows, Donella (2008). Thinking In Systems: A Primer. Chelsea Green Publishing...
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Yuen Ren Chao (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
gifted polyglot and linguist, his Mandarin Primer was one of the most widely used Mandarin Chinese textbooks in the 20th century. He invented the Gwoyeu...
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Just culture (category Systems theory)
Just culture is a concept related to systems thinking which emphasizes that mistakes are generally a product of faulty organizational cultures, rather...
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principles for how all living systems work. Some scientists have proposed in the last few decades that a general theory of living systems is required to explain...
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Model-Based Systems Engineering. The book outlines the systems thinking approach and reviews the basic concepts of model-based systems engineering. In August...
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Thousand Character Classic (redirect from The 1,000-Character Primer)
wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the...
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a hypervisor. HCI systems are usually made up of server systems equipped with direct-attached storage. HCI includes the ability to pool like systems together...
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Systems biology is the computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems. It is a biology-based interdisciplinary field...
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Spanish: Patas Arriba: la Escuela del Mundo al Revés), originally published in Spanish in 1998, was written...
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geographic information systems, also abbreviated GIS, is the most common term for the industry and profession concerned with these systems. The academic discipline...
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Viable system theory (VST) concerns cybernetic processes in relation to the development/evolution of dynamical systems: it can be used to explain living...
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, written by Jordan Ellenberg, is a New York Times Best Selling book that connects various economic...
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy (category Systems biologists)
as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable...
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