Navigating the polycrisis—governing for transformation: The 2024 agenda for the systems community

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Publication Info: https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2990

Date of Publication: December 13

Year of Publication: 2023

Publication City: Hoboken, NJ

Publisher: Wiley

Author(s): Louis Klein, Pamela Buckle, Nam Nguyen et al.

Journal: Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volume: 40(6)

Pages: 973–977

Abstract

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 circumstances but to date, have done little to transform our manners of being and doing, as the polycrisis is an outcome of a profound governance crisis.

Ongoing reflections, building on the framing offered by the global problematique, in the IFSR Conversations in 2023 addressed these issues. Advocating for more epistemological transparency in systems research was a major theme to emerge. Widening the gaze and embracing the full capacity of the cybersystemic perspective of systems research seeks to allow IFSR members, and cybersystemic scholars more generally, to harness their understandings and praxes to bring fresh momentum to navigating the polycrisis and governing for transformation.

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