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Nicholas Carr (2010), The Shallows. For suggested reading on systems, see Fritjof Capra (1996), The Web of Life (the science of systems and ecology); Peter B. Checkland (1981), Systems Thinking, Foundation texts include Norbert Wiener (1948), Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (ambitious, historical reading); Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968), General System Theory; and Paul A. Weiss (1971), Hierarchically Organised Systems in Theory and Practice. Jay Wright Forrester (1961), Industrial Dynamics developed a systems thinking approach which he applied in (1970), Urban Dynamics, and which provided the basis for Meadows et al. (1972), The Limits to Growth. A survey of the present state and possible future developments in systems thinking is in Jamshid Gharajedaghi (1999), Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity. Systems Practice (a core text, including a rich literature review up to 1999); Anthony M.H. Clayton and Nicholas J. Radcliffe (1996), Sustainability: A Systems Approach (a comprehensive text on systems and the ecosystem). Edward Goldsmith (1992), The Way (a profound application of systems thinking to ecology); Joseph O’Connor and Ian McDermott (1997), The Art of Systems Thinking (an engaging beginners’ guide); Peter M. Senge (1990), The Fifth Discipline (a brilliantly readable guide to systems thinking in management); Dennis Sherwood (2002), Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager’s Guide to Applying Systems Thinking (develops Senge’s work on causal loops); Brian Walker and David Salt (2006), Resilience Thinking (an excellent summary, with many examples, seeing systems from the perspective of resilience).

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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