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A TRIBUTE TO BELA H BANATHY (5475 words) |
 | No one disagreed with Bela’s view of the sorry state of the world and the disappointing failure of systems thinking to contribute to reducing the major problems of inequity, inequality, failure of social systems, despoliation of the environment, crime, drugs, which he reviewed in his introduction to the meeting. |
| Bela argued that the issues facing the future of mankind and society were so enormous, that the traditional problem-solving approach of differentiating between a system and its environment, and then agents acting to produce a feasible and desirable change in some aspect of the system concerned, could not work. |
| Bela Banathy has been the sustaining influence of my own continuing individual emergence over the last 15 years, not only in terms of the focus of the 20 papers/articles I have produced but in terms of my attitude to the world and the desperate need to take charge of the future. |
| Systems thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (855 words) |
| Evolutionary systems - the development of Evolutionary Systems Design by Bela H. Banathy integrates critical systems inquiry and soft systems methodologies to create a meta-methodology applicable to the design of complex social systems. |
| These systems, similar to dynamic systems are understood as open, complex systems, but further accounts for their potential capacity to evolve over time. |
| Banathy uniquely integrated the multidisciplinary perspectives of systems research (including chaos, complexity, cybernetics), cultural anthropology, evolutionary theory, and others. |
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