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System Thinking in Development of Solutions to Sustainability Challenges

   

Added on  2020-12-18

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SYSTEMS THINKING ISCRITICAL INDEVELOPING SOLUTIONSTO SUSTAINABILITYCHALLENGES

Table of ContentsESSAY.............................................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONToday, our world has started facing a lot of environmental challenges due to climate change and global warming. It has become essential to ensure sustainability within the organizations to maintain a better environment and overcome the challenges faced. The below essay identifies the importance of systems thinking in developing solutions of the challenges faced by sustainability (Systems thinking. 2017). It explores in what manner sustainability can be raised within organizations from the help of systems thinking and how effectively sustainable practices can be brought into action within these organizations. ESSAYMAIN BODYThe process of understanding in what manner things influence each another within awhole refers to systems thinking. In a set of organizations, systems consist of processes, peopleand structures which work together in order to make the organization both unhealthy andhealthy. It has been defined as an approach to solve a problem by viewing “problems” as anoverall part of the system, instead of just reacting to a specific event, part or an outcome whichpotentially contributes to further development of consequences which were not intended. It is notjust a single thing but a set of practices or habits which are fixed within a framework based on abelief that the component parts of a system can only be best understood in the context of eachothers relationships with other different systems, rather than in isolation . Instead of focusing onlinear, systems thinking focuses on cyclical cause and effects. Global warming and climate change are one of the core environmental challenges whichorganizations across the world are facing today. In order to deal with these challenges it hasbecome important for the organizations across the world to ensure and maintain sustainability.Sustainability refers to the process of meeting the needs of the present without risking the abilityof future generation to meet their own needs (Arnold and Wade, 2015). Its concept is composedof three main pillars which are social, environmental and economic which informally also knownas people, planed and profits. The issue of sustainability is one of the most and the largest addressed issues across theworld today. It has become essential for sustainability to involve systems thinking in order todevelop required solutions to resolve related problems. Systems thinking is one of the advanced

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