Toward Cyber-Systemic Thinking in Practice

REFERENCES

• Armson, R. (2011). Growing wings on the way. Systems thinking for messy situations. Exeter, UK: Triarchy Press.
   Google Scholar
• Armson, R., & Ison, R. L. (2001). If you're a fish what can you know about the water? Some reflections on doing Systems when you are immersed in the context. Conference of the American Society of Cybernetics, Vancouver, May 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Armson, R., Ison, R. L., Short, L., Ramage, M., & Reynolds, M. (2001). Rapid institutional appraisal (RIA): A systemic approach to staff development. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 14, 763–777. doi:10.1023/A:1013182429327
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bawden, R. J., & Ison, R. L. (1992). The purpose of field-crop ecosystems: Social and economic aspects. In C. J. Pearson (Ed.), Field-crop ecosystems (pp. 11–35). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier.
   Google Scholar
• Bawden, R. J., & Packham, R. G. (1993). Systemic praxis in the education of the agricultural systems practitioner. Systems Practice, 6 (1), 7–19. doi:10.1007/BF01059677
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bell, S. (2017). Formations of terror. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Blackmore, C. P. (2009). Learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making (PhD Thesis). The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
   Google Scholar
• Boyd, G., & Zeman, V. (2007). Designing cybersystemically for symviability. Kybernetes, 36 (9/10), 1255–1265. doi:10.1108/03684920710827274
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Checkland, P. (1981). Systems thinking, systems practice. Chichester, UK: Wiley.
   Google Scholar
• Checkland, P. B. (1985). From optimizing to learning: A development of systems thinking for the 1990s. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 26, 757–767. doi:10.2307/2582164
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Checkland, P. (1999). SSM: A 30 years retrospective. Chichester, UK: Wiley
   Google Scholar
• Checkland, P. (2002). The role of the practitioner in a soft systems study, Quarterly Newsletter of the Open University Systems Society (OUSyS). Open University: Milton Keynes, No. 27, March 2002, pp. S5–S11
   Google Scholar
• Checkland, P., & Casar, A. (1986). Vickers’ concept of an appreciative system: A systemic account. Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, 13, 3–17.
   Google Scholar
• Churchman, C. W. (1971). The design of inquiring systems: Basic concepts of systems and organizations. New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Colvin, J., Blackmore, C., Chimbuya, S., Collins, K. B., Dent, M., Goss, J., … Seddaiu, G. (2014). In search of systemic innovation for sustainable development: A design praxis emerging from a decade of social learning inquiry. Research Policy, 43(4), 760–771. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2013.12.010
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Community Approaches to Rangelands Research (CARR). (1993). Marketing of Middle Micron Wool. Researching with people on issues that make a difference. Monograph. University of Sydney & University of Western Sydney. 44 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Cousins, B. ed. (1994). Issues and options for institutional change for rural development, agriculture and land reform. Summary and Overview. Policy Paper 9, Land & Agriculture Policy Centre, Johannesburg. 69 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Green, D. (2016). How change happens. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Humphreys, C. (1991). Child sexual assault disclosure: Mothers in crisis (PhD dissertation). Sydney, Australia: University of N.S.W.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L. (2005). Editorial. Geoffrey Vickers 2004: Contemporary applications and changing appreciative settings. Special Edition Systems Research & Behavioral Science, 22, 1–8. doi:10.1002/sres.691
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L. (2010). Systems practice: how to act in a climate-change world. London, UK: Springer and The Open University.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L. (2016a). Governing in the Anthropocene: What future systems thinking in practice? Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 33(5), 595–613. doi:10.1002/sres.2421
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L. (2016b). Transforming nature-society relations through innovations in research praxis: A coevolutionary systems approach, In B. Hubert & N. Mathieu (Eds.), Interdisciplinarités entre Natures et Sociétés: Colloque de Cerisy. EcoPolis (Vol 26., pp. 47–70). Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L. (2017). Systems practice: how to Act. In situations of uncertainty and complexity in a climate-change world. (2nd ed.,) London, UK: Springer and The Open University.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Russell, D. B. (2000a). Exploring some distinctions for the design of learning systems. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 7(4), 43–56.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Russell, D. B. eds. (2000b). Agricultural extension and rural development: Breaking out of traditions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 239 p.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Armson, R. (2006). Think, act & play im Leadership der Kybernetik zweiter Ordnung. Lernende Organisation, pp. 12–23. Zeitschrift fur systemishes Management und Organisation No 33, September/Oktober (www.lo.isct.net) ISSN 1609-1248.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Russell, D. B. eds. (2007). Agricultural extension and rural development: Breaking out of knowledge transfer traditions. Paperback. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 239 p.
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Blackmore, C. (2014). Designing and developing a reflexive learning system for managing systemic change. Systems, 2(2), 119–136.) doi:10.3390/systems2020119
   Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Schlindwein, S. (2015). Navigating through an ‘ecological desert and a sociological hell’: A cyber-systemic governance approach for the Anthropocene. Kybernetes, 44(6/7), 891–902. doi:10.1108/K-01-2015-0007
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., & Shelley, M. (2016). Governing in the anthropocene: Contributions from systems thinking in practice? ISSS yearbook special issue. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 33(5), 589–594. doi:10.1002/sres.2436
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., Grant, A., & Bawden, R. B. (2014). Scenario praxis for systemic and adaptive governance: A critical framework. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(4), 623–640. doi:10.1068/c11327
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ison, R. L., Alexandra, J., & Wallis, P. J. (2018). Governing in the Anthropocene: Cyber-systemic antidotes to the malaise of modern governance. Sustainability Science, 13(5), 1209–1223. doi:10.1007/s11625-018-0570-5
   Google Scholar
• Kunkel, B. (2017). The capitalocence. The London Review of Books, 39(5), 22–28.
   Google Scholar
• Maturana, H. (n.d.). Autopoiesis, structural coupling and cognition. http://www.isss.org/maturana.htm (Accessed 14th May 2017).
   Google Scholar
• McClendon, K. S. (2016). Not power but beauty: How systemic sensing and engaging inspire therapeutic change (PhD Dissertation). University of Louisiana at Monroe, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling (Marriage and Family Therapy), May.
   Google Scholar
• Reynolds, M., Shah, R., Wedlock, E., Ison, R., & Blackmore, C. (2016). Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice at the Workplace: eSTEeM final report. The OU Centre for STEM Pedagogy.
   Google Scholar
• Russell, D. B., & Ison, R. L. (1993). The research-development relationship in rangelands: An opportunity for contextual science. Invited Plenary Paper, Proc. IVth International Rangeland Congress, Montpellier, 1991. Vol. 3, pp. 1047–1054.
   Google Scholar
• Russell, D. B., & Ison, R. L. (2000). Enthusiasm: Developing critical action for second-order R&D. In R. L. Ison & D. B. Russell (Eds.), Agricultural extension and rural development: Breaking out of traditions (pp. 136–160). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Russell, D. B., & Ison, R. L. (2004). Maturana’s intellectual contribution as a choreography of conversation and action. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 11(2), 36–48.
   Google Scholar
• Russell, D. B., & Ison, R. L. (2005). The researcher of human systems is both choreographer and chorographer. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 22(2), 131–138. doi:10.1002/sres.680
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Russell, D. B., & Ison, R. L. (2017). Fruits of Gregory Bateson’s epistemological crisis: Embodied mind-making and interactive experience in research and professional praxis. Canadian Journal of Communication, 42 (3), 485–514. doi:10.22230/cjc.2017v42n3a3194
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schön, D. A. (1995). Knowing-in-action: The new scholarship requires a new epistemology, Change, November/December, 27–34.
   Google Scholar
• Theophanidis, P., Thibault, G., & Trudel, D. (2017). Guest editorial. At the margins of cybernetics. Canadian Journal of Communication, 42, 397–405. doi:10.22230/cjc.2017v42n3a3304
   Google Scholar
• Tsien, H. S. (1954). Engineering cybernetics, preface viii. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
   Google Scholar
• Vickers, G. (1965). The art of judgement. London, UK: Chapman and Hall (Republished by Harper and Row, 1983 and Sage, 1995).
   Google Scholar
• Vickers, G. (1972). Freedom in a rocking boat. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Vickers, G. (1973). Making institutions work. New York, NY: Wiley.
   Google Scholar
• Vickers, G. (1983). Human systems are different. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
   Google Scholar
• Vickers, G. (1984). Human systems are different. London, UK: Harper & Row.
   Google Scholar
• Wiener, N. (1948). Cybernetics: Or control and communication in the animal and the machine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar