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Whole-system thinking

North-west China Water Supply Impacted by Vegetation Restoration

December 15, 2020May 27, 2015 by Lulu Zhang

The nexus perspective emphasizes the interdependencies of environmental resources and their transitions and fluxes across spatial scales and between compartments

Categories Environment Tags environmental restoration projects, policy, Whole-system thinking Leave a comment

The Infinite Toddler Regress–The Krugman Function Part 3

December 15, 2020October 27, 2014 by Erik Lindberg

In this installment I’m going to talk about Paul Krugman’s resistance to whole-system thinking, and I’m going to do it by way of a comparison to a very different intellectual dispensation…

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The Krugman Function, Part 2: Whole-System Thinking

December 15, 2020October 21, 2014 by Erik Lindberg

Because of its emphasis on liberty, autonomy, free will, and consent, the Enlightenment tradition of Liberalism has, I will be arguing, in large part been based on the rejection of whole-system thinking.  

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