System Thinking for Developing Solutions to Sustainability Challenges

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System thinking is Critical in Developing Solutions to Sustainability Challenges
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System thinking is Critical in Developing Solutions to Sustainability Challenges
Sustainability is the limit of natural frameworks to have the capacity to bear and stay
productive as well as diverse over a long period of time (Rittel and Webber 2013, p. 12). The
main procedure for sustainability process is to plan for reasonable development that is
interconnected with ecology, political economics and culture parts. There are various problems
that have existed in the quest for fulfilment of sustainability development. Such kinds of
problems have been regarded by scholars as wicked problems. This is because they cannot be
characterized completely and do not have final solutions. The wicked problems have constant
changing needs making them difficult to solve. (Beinecke 2009, p. 25). Wicked problems are
henceforth an arrangement of unique challenges viewed as manifestations of different problems.
For people to able to create solutions to sustainability challenges, it is needed for them to
transform from the traditional state of mind and enhance mental models. It is at this point where
system thinking is helpful in providing solutions for sustainability challenges.
As Nguyen and Bosch (2012, 18) indicate, System thinking is a system of many
disciplines used to picture the different pattern interrelationships for s progress instead of static
snapshots. As much as system thinking is an old concept (Sterman 2014, p.29), it is seen as a
suitable approach for thinking to understand as well as tackle the current diverse problem locally
as well as globally. It is a technique in which development organizers conceptualize and act
towards the orderly coordination of socio-environmental and monetary components of
sustainability. The methodology encourages management complexities provision with respect to
different strategies. It also includes viewing the whole picture and comprehending the extensive
setting recognizing associations in different levels. The importance of the research indicates that

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no wicked problem exist in isolation but it is part the large system with interconnected systems
and system thinking approach is useful in building up appropriate solutions for such issues.
It is significant that one cannot comprehend the greatness and conduct of a framework by just
looking at a couple of parts of the system. This article assesses the role of system thinking in
local and worldwide sustainability challenges. Likewise, consideration ought to be drawn on one
of the wicked problem notably increasing the renewable energy in the energy mix of Australia. I
firmly concur with the explanation that ‘systems thinking is critical in developing solutions to
sustainability challenges,’ in light of the fact that the methodology includes a proficient
technique to address issues. According to Martin (2011, p. 37), a system thinker commits himself
or herself to see beyond the microscopic details of the problem through its real advances, for
example, diagnosing the issue to perceive how it can be solved and executing solutions with
known outcomes. In this exposition, specific consideration will be attracted to the wicked
problem of expanding the extent of the sustainable power source in Australia's energy mix while
attempting to look at the usefulness of system thinking in providing a solution to the issue.
As indicated by system thinking, managing the insidious problem of sustainability like a
sustainable power source requires two huge components. Making more noteworthy framework
versatility for the indigenous habitat and thus assessing administration with the goal that it is
suitable for dealing with the complexities of all the collective methodologies (Marshak 2012,
p.79). As opposed to the traditional mind-set, system thinking puts emphasis on the reason for
the cause and impacts in frameworks and how they are commonly reliant on one another. The
methodology will subsequently enable us to get a top to bottom perception of the causality in
certifiable systems and settling the sustainability issue by further understanding the fiendish issue
system elements (Higgins and Reddy 2010, p. 37). The proposition of this paper centres on the