Concepts and tools of computer-assisted policy analysis Vol. 1: Basic concepts (Isr, Interdisciplinary Systems Research) (Interdisziplinäre Forschung) - Softcover

Bossel, Hartmut

 
9783764309213: Concepts and tools of computer-assisted policy analysis Vol. 1: Basic concepts (Isr, Interdisciplinary Systems Research) (Interdisziplinäre Forschung)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3764309210 ISBN 13: 9783764309213
Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel, 1980

Inhaltsangabe

Change is the most pervasive characteristic of our time: technological change affects production, transportation, and living patterns, these in turn cause changes in existing ecological and social systems, these again influence decisions and behavior of the individual, and of the organizational entities at the various levels of the social system. It is these decisions and actions which control further change and with it the future living conditions on our planet. In many domains of our experience - production, consumption, construc­ tion, transportation - we have become accustomed to annual average rates of change of around five percent, or a doubling in 14 years. Yet the social and political problems all around us seem to indicate that individuals as well as social structures are ill-equipped to deal adaptively and construc­ tively with such rates of change - which may locally reach much higher values, such as 25 percent per year, or a doubling every three years. In many, if not most cases, such amounts require qualitatively different responses, or a constant review and adaptation of the normative principles controlling decision and action. Change is never isolated. It is the result of, and it causes, other changes.

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Change is the most pervasive characteristic of our time: technological change affects production, transportation, and living patterns, these in turn cause changes in existing ecological and social systems, these again influence decisions and behavior of the individual, and of the organizational entities at the various levels of the social system. It is these decisions and actions which control further change and with it the future living conditions on our planet. In many domains of our experience - production, consumption, construc­ tion, transportation - we have become accustomed to annual average rates of change of around five percent, or a doubling in 14 years. Yet the social and political problems all around us seem to indicate that individuals as well as social structures are ill-equipped to deal adaptively and construc­ tively with such rates of change - which may locally reach much higher values, such as 25 percent per year, or a doubling every three years. In many, if not most cases, such amounts require qualitatively different responses, or a constant review and adaptation of the normative principles controlling decision and action. Change is never isolated. It is the result of, and it causes, other changes.

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Verlag
Birkhäuser Basel
Erscheinungsdatum
1980
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3764309210
ISBN 13 
9783764309213
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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