Systems thinking and change
Asked by the Club of Rome to show how major global problems — poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, resource depletion, urban deterioration, unemployment — are related and how they might be solved, Forrester made a computer model and came out with a clear leverage point1: Growth.
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Fishery Causal Loop Diagram
The text details a causal loop diagram for fishery and ocean conservation, illustrating stakeholder interactions, theories of change, and strategies for sustainable fisheries through collective modeling and dialogue.
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Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
You hear about catastrophic river floods much more often than catastrophic lake floods, because stocks that are big, relative to their flows, are more stable than small ones.
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project
Leverage points are points of power.