Systems for Sustainability

People, Organizations, and Environments

Frank A. Stowell, Ray L. Ison, Rosalind Armson, Jacky Holloway, Sue Jackson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

728 Seiten

2013 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4899-0267-2 (ISBN)

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The term "sustainability" has entered the lexicon of many academic disciplines and fields of professional practice, but to date does not appear to have been seriously consid ered within the systems community unless, perhaps, under other guises. Within the wider community there is no consensus around what sustainability means with some authors identifying 70 to 100 definitions of the term. Some see sustainability as the precise and quantifiable outcomes of biological systems whilst others see it in terms of processes rele vant to personal and organizational change with the potential to effect changes in our rela tionships with out environments. Internationally it has been increasingly used in relation to the term "sustainable development"--a term popularised by the Brundland Commis of definitions sion's report in 1987 entitled "Our Common Future. " Despite this diversity and polarised perception on its utility, unlike many other popular terms, it has not had its time and subsided quietly from our language. It is therefore timely for the systems com munity to explore the relationship between systems and sustainability in a range of con texts. Participants in this, the 5th International Conference of the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS), have been invited to reflect critically on the contribution of sys tems thinking and action to sustainability-to the sustainability of personal relationships, the organizations in which live and work, and our "natural" environment.

Plenary.- Systems for Environmental Sustainability.- Reflections of Systems Thinking and Practice.- Learning Organisation and Systems.- Critical Systems.- Methodology Use and Development.- IS Development.- Innovation and Organisations.- Change Management.

Zusatzinfo	XVII, 728 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-4899-0267-8 / 1489902678
ISBN-13	978-1-4899-0267-2 / 9781489902672
Zustand	Neuware