The Oblivion of churchman's Plea for a Systems Approach to World Problems. I. The Inseparability Of Systems Thinking and World Issues in the Modern Epoch

摘要

The presentation of a Systems Approach made by Churchman in 1968 starts from a close link between a systems approach and tackling world problems. The link is so closed that, in the writing of Churchman seems to be a natural, almost genetic, link. Thirty years later we find that such concern for world problems has faded away from systems literature. Why? What was the nature of what for Churchman and other scholars of his time was an obvious link? How can there be such a thing as "world issues" or "world problems"? This is the first article of a trilogy devoted to find a way through those questions.