Book Recommendations Systems Thinking

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I started this topic because I wanted to share some book recommendations relating to systems thinking and complex systems science. Share your own books or resources if you want.

1. RESILIENCE thinking by Brian Walker and David Salt (https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Brian-Walker/dp/1597260932)

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"Offers a different way of understanding the world and a fresh approach to managing resources. This work embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability."

I highly recommend this book to learn about resilience thinking. You can read this page on the seven principles of resilience thinking: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2015-02-19-applying-resilience-thinking.html

 

2. Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell (https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitchell/dp/0199798109)

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As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web - these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific understanding. Comprehending such systems seems to require a wholly new approach, one that goes beyond traditional scientific reductionism and that re-maps long-standing disciplinary boundaries.

This is a nice and broad introductory book on the science of complex systems.