Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate-Change World

• Main Author: Ison, Ray. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Social sciences > Data processing.; Information Systems.; Environmental management.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Environmental Management.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-125-7

It is now accepted that humans are changing the climate of the Earth and this is the most compelling amongst a long litany of reasons as to why, collectively, we have to change our ways of thinking and acting. Most people now recognise that we have to be capable of adapting quickly as new and uncert...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Thinking and Acting Differently
• 1. Introduction and Rationale
• Part II Systems Practice as Juggling
• 2. Introducing Systems Practice
• 3. Making Choices About Situations and Systems
• 4. The Juggler  A Way to Understand Systems Practice
• 5. Juggling the B-ball  Being a Systems Practitioner
• 6. Juggling the E-ball  Engaging with Situations
• 7. Juggling the C-ball  Contextualizing Systems Approaches
• 8. Juggling the M-ball  Managing Overall Performance in a Situation
• Part III Systemic Practices
• 9. Four Settings that Constrain Systems Practice
• 10. Systemic Inquiry
• 11. Systemic Action Research
• 12. Systemic Intervention
• Part IV Valuing Systems Practice in a Climate-change World
• 13. Valuing Systems Practice
• Index.