Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 1998

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 1998

Introduction to the Special Issue.
September 1, 1998... This special issue of Systems Research and Behavioural Science is both an ending and a beginning. For over three decades the Society for General Systems Research (now the International Society for the Systems Sciences) published a series of...

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.(Review)
September 1, 1998... International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics. Edited by Charles Francois. Published by KG Saur, 1997, 423 pp., DM 398.00, ISBN 3 59811357 9 (hardback) To appraise the scope of this new Encyclopedia, the reviewer used it to obtain...

Systemic Praxis in the Education of the Agricultural Systems Practitioner([dagger]).
September 1, 1998... The most important feature of the systems approach is that it is committed to ascertaining not simply that the decision maker's choices lead to his desired ends, but whether they lead to ends which are ethically defensible. C. West...

Governmental Justice and the Dispersion of Societal Decider Subsystems Through Exchange Economics.
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION For centuries theologians and philosophers have asserted that free-market societies are unjust. They have argued that the natural injustice of such systems must be countered by intervening hierarchical systems of religion and...

Social Ecology and Living Systems Theory.
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Human ecology, as derived from plant and animal ecology (Bailey, 1990a, 1993) has a long history of accomplishment. It generally deals with the manner in which humans adapt to their environment, both nonliving and living....

The Union of Opposites: From Taoism to Process Theory.
September 1, 1998... This article discusses the union of opposites as a personal and social philosophy, from the dual perspective of Eastern Taoism and process theory (Sabelli, 1989; Sabelli et at., 1997). Taoism, as Greek physiology and modern science, regards the...

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.(Review)
September 1, 1998... International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics. Edited by Charles Francois. Published by KG Saur, Munchen, 1997, 423 pp., DM 398.00, ISBN 3 59811357 9 (hardback) The first time I heard about this encyclopedia was during the...

A Phenomenology of Evolving Networks([dagger]).
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Recently, Roger Lewin (1984) posed the question in Science magazine, `Why is development so illogical?' Lewin's concern was that developmental biology wasn't acting according to the script that molecular biologists had...

The De-mechanisation of Economics([dagger]).
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION For whatever reason, particularly in the English-speaking countries, the economics paradigm is still a mechanistic one. It has not accepted many of the concepts now common to subatomic physics, biology, ecology and evolution....

Redesigning Agroecosystems for Environmental Sustainability: A Deep Systems Approach.
September 1, 1998... Clever people know how to solve problems, wise people avoid them. Attributed to Albert Einstein My mission is to establish food systems worldwide that are nourishing, socially just, humane, and environmentally sustainable. I have...

Education in the World System([dagger]).
September 1, 1998... Education is a subset of the world system. The world system has many levels -- material (rocks, water, atmosphere, etc.), biological (the biosphere of all living creatures), and social (human beings and their aspects of knowledge,...

Evolution and Thermodynamics: The New Paradigm([dagger]).
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Evolutionary theory is presently undergoing the kind of massive conceptual restructuring that marked the two great scientific revolutions of our century: relativity and quantum mechanics. Like those two revolutions, the one...