Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Headline: Leverage points: Places to intervene in a system by Donella Meadows
The Sustainability Institute Designs will have an impact on how people move, live, and conduct their lives in a healthy or an unhealthy manner.
Leverage points are areas within a system where small changes can generate seismic, system-wide effects. For example, contrary to expectations, having more low-income housing actually results in poorer outcomes for poverty-stricken residents of urban areas if the housing is not matched simultaneously with employment opportunities. To change systems requires an understanding of negative and positive feedback loops, information flows, and other system parameters, rather than merely trying to change what is obvious. Rather than attaching one's self to a single paradigm, it is better to use systems analysis because it allows the analyst to retreat from the dominant paradigm and to change his or her whole approach. Instead of changing the players of the system (such electing new political representatives), it is more important to step back and change ideas about the system itself (such what constitutes equity in taxation or parity in terms of residents' ways of life).
Link: http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
Does it relate to other disciplines? Systems analysis is a concept that affects a wide range of disciplines, spanning from economics to nursing to organizational psychology. Systems are analyzed as entities that are larger than the sum of their parts. This can be seen in the work of the sculptor and conceptual artist Jeff Koons: Koons has created massive works that resemble large lumps of Play-Dough stuck together or balloon dogs (Saltz 1). They are not conventionally 'artistic' or pleasant to look at but because of their meaning and location within a larger systemic fabric, they take on meaning for the gazer. By decentering and making the viewer uncomfortable about he or she sees objects in daily life and…
Work Cited
Saltz, Jerry. "Jeff Koons, creator and destroyer of worlds." Vulture. 25 Jun 2014.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/06/jeff-koons-creator-and-destroyer-of-worlds.html
[15 Sept 2014]
Free WIFI Based on the current information regarding free Wi-Fi being offered in various municipalities, it is impossible to make any generalized statements either pro-or con. There have been some successful implementations and some very unsuccessful attempts at implementation. Generally, those that failed were vast, sweeping projects that failed to consider the limitations which would inevitably lead to their demise. Those with a more limited scope were often more successful. To
Network Security: Past, Present and Future The work of Curtin (2007) states that a network is defined as "any set of interlinking lines resembling a net, a network of roads -- an interconnected system, a network of alliances." Quite simply a computer network is a system of computers that are interconnected. There are seven layers of communication types identified by the International Standards Organization (ISO) Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Reference Model
Network-Centric Approach to Disaster Management Agencies involved in the preparation for, management of, and response to disasters require an enormous considerable amount of information in risk and emergency management, this kind of information is geographical and more often it does not reach the right people at the right time thus raising a concern on how such information can be organized in a way that it supports risk and emergency management more
Wireless Network Design Proposal Apparently, technology has influenced many fields and education is not an exception. Students can now access education from different locations in the globe, a factor that has contributed to the development of the education sector. In addition, students can access lectures through the internet, lecturers can share information through live-conferencing, and this has led to further development of the education sector. The case study provided aims
Although Jamaat Ul-Fuqra is based out of Pakistan, it operates primarily in the United States, Canada, and the Carribean. Its operations are scattered throughout the United States in rural communes supposedly meant to provide Muslims with a living environment free from destructive secular influences. Some of these communes are believed to provide paramilitary or terrorist training to its members. Jamaat Ul-Fuqra members have planned various small-scale acts of religion-directed violence, mainly against
Wealth of Networks Communication (general) It is said that the Western culture is going through some sort of cultural war in terms of communication and technology (Braman 153-182). The battlegrounds are seen in the courts, the legislatures, international bodies, local communities, and distant countries that individually may not have much power to affect the outcome though they do have a vital interest in who wins. The war is global -- and is