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View article: Recognising and Realising the Field of Systems Research in Itself and for Itself: The 2026 Agenda for the Cybersystemic Community
Recognising and Realising the Field of Systems Research in Itself and for Itself: The 2026 Agenda for the Cybersystemic Community Open
Systems thinking emerged as a transdisciplinary movement that sought to bridge the sciences, humanities and practices of change. Today, it spans many fields but risks losing coherence as its core ideas are repeatedly rediscovered and reapp…
View article: Reimagining Systems Thinking as Cybersystemic Researching: An Invitation to a Cyber‐Systemic Co‐Inquiry
Reimagining Systems Thinking as Cybersystemic Researching: An Invitation to a Cyber‐Systemic Co‐Inquiry Open
This paper reimagines the future of systems research as an enacted cybersystemic praxis that moves beyond traditional notions of systems thinking. We argue that systems research is best understood as a reflexive, embodied and situated prac…
View article: Critical social perspectives in forest and landscape restoration – a systematic review
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In response to increasing calls for better consideration of social dimensions in Forest (and) Landscape Restoration (FLR), this systematic literature review identifies and synthesises relevant themes associated with critical social perspec…
View article: Governance in the time of COVID‐19: Systemic implications for governing in an Anthropocene world based on experiences from Australia and Brazil
Governance in the time of COVID‐19: Systemic implications for governing in an Anthropocene world based on experiences from Australia and Brazil Open
The disruption of the COVID‐19 pandemic reveals that contemporary governance systems are not fit for purpose as we progress our living in a human‐induced Anthropocene world. Governance failings of a cybersystemic nature are highlighted thr…
View article: Valuing who we are in relation to others: The ‘<i>praxis of co</i>’ in an Anthropocene‐world. The 2025 agenda for the cybersystems community
Valuing who we are in relation to others: The ‘<i>praxis of co</i>’ in an Anthropocene‐world. The 2025 agenda for the cybersystems community Open
In our Agenda Essays to date, we have argued the need to frame contemporary circumstances in terms of the Anthropocene‐world we humans have created. We also prioritise the five‐decade‐old, prescient analysis of humanity's predicament as th…
View article: Systems-Based Governance
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How can we explain the collective failure of our institutions to respond to the global climate emergency and crisis, and why can't our institutions seem to respond for the collective good and sustainable future? This is an important and sy…
View article: Navigating the polycrisis—governing for transformation: The 2024 agenda for the systems community
Navigating the polycrisis—governing for transformation: The 2024 agenda for the systems community Open
The challenges of the Anthropocene were pre‐empted by systems scholars in the exposition of the ‘global problematique’ and are now made manifest in what systems scholars called the polycrisis. These framings alert us to our human circumsta…
View article: Addressing Complexity in Chronic Disease Prevention Research
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There is wide agreement on the need for systems thinking to address complexity in chronic disease prevention but there is insufficient understanding of how such approaches are operationalised in prevention research. Ison and Straw propose …
View article: Dramaturgies for Re-imagining Murray-Darling Basin governing
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Historically, governing, and thus planning, the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) has been framed in a plethora of ways. Seemingly, 'the plan' and planning has to be all things to all people, but the reforms, instituted in the Water Act 2007 (Cwl…
View article: Reframing governance possibilities for urban biodiversity conservation through systemic co‐inquiry
Reframing governance possibilities for urban biodiversity conservation through systemic co‐inquiry Open
Despite decades of effort, biodiversity has not attracted effective political discourse, policies, or action to halt its decline. In cities in particular, biodiversity conservation is challenged by short‐term approaches, separately focusin…
View article: Toward adaptive water governance: the role of systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation in the eastern transboundary rivers of South Africa
Toward adaptive water governance: the role of systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation in the eastern transboundary rivers of South Africa Open
This paper contributes to scholarship on adaptive water governance (AWG), following policy reforms in South Africa, through a focus on systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation as critical aspects of AWG. We draw insights from three i…
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View article: Leadership for systems change: Researcher practices for enhancing research impact in the prevention of chronic disease
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Introduction Strengthening systems for chronic disease prevention is essential. Leadership for systems change is an important key to strengthening systems. Leadership in prevention research for supporting systems change remains a relativel…
View article: Growing a community of conversation and understanding: The 2023 agenda for the systems community
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In his 1970 report to the Club of Rome, Hasan Özbekhan compiled an extensive collection of intersecting issues confronting humanity—the Global Problématique. Alas, half a century later, we find ourselves even further entrenched in this net…
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View article: River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France Open
Successful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. A governance approach for determining priorities for actors for sustainable management was developed, based on a river ba…
View article: From Understanding to Impactful Action: Systems Thinking for Systems Change in Chronic Disease Prevention Research
From Understanding to Impactful Action: Systems Thinking for Systems Change in Chronic Disease Prevention Research Open
Within the field of chronic disease prevention, research efforts have moved to better understand, describe, and address the complex drivers of various health conditions. Change-making is prominent in this paper, and systems thinking and sy…
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View article: Towards systemic evaluation in turbulent times – Second-order practice shift
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The need for, and possibilities of, a second-order shift in evaluation practice are explored. Second-order evaluation practice enables an evaluator to improve practice as a skilled practitioner, acknowledging her embeddedness within an eva…
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