Sustainability in Human-Computer Interaction

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“System thinking is critical in developing solutions to sustainability challenges”
The technique that endures the biological system which is both productive and can
remain diverse in order to maintain balance is commonly known as the sustainability.
However, in the 21st century, the definition of the Sustainability has changed in a rapid way
where it focuses over the requirement and development of sustainable models in order to
maintain the earth and change it to a health environment. The main motive is for well
survival of human race. It is said to be a balanced act that maintains the quotation said by the
United Nation in 1987 “value he needs of the present without compromising the well-being of
the future generation”. The Earth Charter in 2000 briefed the definition further that involved
the concept of society “founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic
justice and a culture of peace”. For the achievement of these goals human beings must re-
examine the policies related to the environment protection, Social responsibilities and
economic practices. The basic concept of sustainable development is the need for
conservation of energy since with every growth in the economy and consumption of energy
environmental degradation is how the nature who pays the cost. This cannot be stopped but
there can be ways to slow down the process degradation and prevent pollution, conserve the
natural resources and hence protect the environment to get depleted completely.
An access to the nutrition, health care, clear water, food, shelter, employment,
energy, opportunities in the economic and education equally, is how a sustainable society
looks like. Business in Sustainable development faces several new paradigms, which
demands for the well being of the environment, the employees and for the future generation’s
prospect. As well as there are expectations for the business to get improved, along with the
fund innovation, profitability and hence increase the market shares for the stakeholders
(Costa at al. 2013). As stated in the statement that for the developing solutions to sustainable
challenges the system thinking plays a critical role, it is said that sustainable business follows

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three strategies: Preservation of the environment and conservation of natural resources,
building the social equity, well-being of support, promoting fare trades and maximizing the
long-term profitability and promotes the growth of the environment. The statement given is
compliant because the rapid use of the words ‘sustainability’ has evolved and has been
accepted in almost every sector. A professor of University of Michigan has explained that the
critical state of the economic, social system and environment has to be strengthening by
increasing the velocity, uncertainty and complexity (del Mar Alonso-Almeida et al. 2015). To
dictate the inter-relationship other than ideally watching the Patterns of changing, the system
thinking works on a trans-disciplinary framework. Sustainability and System Thinking should
be regarded as set that are complementary. System theories provide the discussions that are
theoretical based about sustainability and the sustainability gives an overview of the vital
parts of practical relevance over the system thinking. A system thinker hence evaluates the
problem to pattern behavior over time ignoring the fact to focus on a particular event. The
system approach toward problem solving hence has criticisms (Becker et al. 2015). The
system dependency more on models and actual solutions threatens the legitimacy to
management of education and boardrooms. But it is always on requirement to diagnose the
problem such that to figure out the possible way to fix it and hence implementing solutions
having similar outcomes and thus believing that system thinking is necessary for sustainable
challenges. Acceptance of sustainable development is still an issue: the first issue is of
appropriate geographical scale, thus the sustainable planning is said to be not much efficient
in larger regions, and the second issue is for the implementation of effective tool in
sustainable development.
Systems thinking is critical to the development of solutions to sustainability
challenges because the system thinking concerns with the whole development of the
organization and society, it has a definite process to deal with systems, it concerns with the

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underlying dynamics and also deals with the planning and pattern of the work to be done for
the betterment of the environment. There are situations when there are violated and hence
there is always a need of critical thinking for sustainable development.
There are several examples like the Coal-Seam Gas extraction in Australia, termed as
one of the wicked problem in sustainable development. This shows the misuse of the energy
policy in the country. The problem was severe as the gas industry in Australia (Aemo)
Australian Energy Market Operators made it very clear to the customers that there will be a
crisis for some amount of time (Benn, Dunphyand Griffiths 2014). Due to the declination of
gas production there may also be crisis for the summer in 2018-2019 in Australia (Colson et
al. 2014). The country not only produces gas for themselves but also for consumers outside,
which are been exported. The main aim of the essay is to explain the critical use of System
thinking in development of solutions to sustainable challenges, along with an example
examining the situation related to it in brief and hence summarize the need of sustainable
development for the betterment of environment.
System thinking is important to deal with the difficulty and challenges of
sustainability since this approach deals with the problems from a macroscopic level rather
than just over-viewing it ("Explainer: coal seam gas, shale gas and fracking in Australia",
2017). System thinking has been found in 1956 by Professor Jay Forrester. Since then this
has been in practice till date. Traditional analysis approaches deals with the studied document
whereas system thinking approaches focuses on the interrelationships within the different
constituents of the system. There are three main parts in the system thinking: Purpose,
Elements and Function. The first part deals with the purpose of the adoption of the system
thinking, second part with the various elements of the system thinking and the last part deals
with the interrelationships of the system elements (Bebbington, Unermanand O'Dwyer
2014). The business practicing on the well being of the environment and the future generation