Ison, Ray
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2421 |
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Abstract
The revealing and concealing features of the metaphor ‘earth as Anthropocene’ are explored in an inquiry that asks: In the Anthropocene what possible futures emerge for systems thinking in practice? Framing choice, so important yet so poorly realised, is the starting point of the inquiry. Three extant conceptual pathway-dependencies are unpacked: governance or governing; practice or practising and ‘system’. New data on the organisational complexity within the field of cybersystemics is presented; new ‘imaginaries’ including systemic co-inquiry and institutional recovery are proposed as novel institutions and practices to facilitate systemic transformations within an Anthropocene setting. The arguments of the paper are illustrated through a research case study based on attempts to transform water and/or river situations towards systemic water governance. It is concluded that future systems research can be understood as the search for effective ‘imaginaries’ that offer fresh possibilities within an Anthropocene framing.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2016 Wiley |
| ISSN: | 1092-7026 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Engineering and Innovation Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Item ID: | 47126 |
| Depositing User: | Raymond Ison |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2016 12:36 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2020 08:18 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/47126 |
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