Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 1999

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 1999

Supply-Side Sustainability.
September 1, 1999... The crucial problem facing the developed world with regard to sustainability is extraction of renewable resources, while keeping them renewable. Failure to solve this problem will have deleterious effects for almost everyone on the planet. In...

Deconstructing the Problem of Comparing the Conflicting Imperatives of Technology and Sustainability.
September 1, 1999... THE ROLE OF SYSTEM SCIENCE One of the reasons that system science has encountered difficulties in becoming an established discipline is that it has tried to be too eclectic and diversified. As a consequence, it has not developed a...

People-ized Ownership Patterns: The Key to a Smarter Capitalism.
September 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION The legitimacy of both markets and democracies is based on the premise that they operate as systems of widely distributed human control. That notion serves as the fundamental rationale behind the deference granted signals...

Business Strategies for Sustainable Profits: Systems Thinking in Practice.
September 1, 1999... In the 1960s and 1970s, as environmental activists and lobbyists we went to battle against major corporations in an effort to pass laws to control development, reduce pollution, and promote recycling. By the mid-1980s, however, we began to...

A Social Systems Approach to Improve Mental Health Collaboration and Ethnic Relations in Cyprus.
September 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Ethnic conflict has continued its course throughout the world, accompanied by daily news reports of racial and ethnic prejudice and atrocities, such as those recently reported between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Hutu...

Announcing a Millennial Event: A World Congress of the Systems Sciences, Toronto, Canada, 17-19 July 2000.
September 1, 1999... To help celebrate the new millennium, the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and some 20 `co-host' organizations in the systems field will jointly present a three-day World Congress of the Systems Sciences in Toronto Canada...

Management Systems: A Viable Approach.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Management Systems: A Viable Approach. By Maurice Yolles. Published by Financial Times Pitman Publishing, 1999, 474 pp., ISBN 0 273 62018 5, 25.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). This book aims to create a foundation for systems theory and...