Article Review for Environmental Science: Systems and Sustainability

This assignment is an article review focusing on the application of systems thinking to address complex sustainability, ecology, and community issues. The student analyzes four articles, each exploring key concepts such as systems thinking, socio-ecological systems, resilience, and leverage points for sustainable development. The review includes definitions, examples from credible sources, connections between readings and real-world events, and potential ideas for a major project. The student highlights the importance of understanding systems to address environmental challenges, emphasizing the interconnectedness of various factors and the need for a holistic approach. The review underscores the significance of identifying leverage points for intervention and promoting sustainable practices, drawing on diverse examples from various regions and contexts. The student also explores the limitations of traditional approaches and the need for a more integrated perspective on human-environment interactions, emphasizing the need for experts in sustainability to find solutions for emerging issues.

Running head: ARTICLE REVIEW
Article Review
(Sustainability, ecology and communities)
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author Note

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Article 1:
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Unit reading
(Nguyen and Ockie)
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One Key definition/concepts
Nguyen and Bosch demonstrate the idea that system thinking lies based on the belief that parts of
any system can differently act as gets isolated from the environment and additional parts of that
system. Further, system thinking is especially helpful to address the wicked of complex
problematic cases (Nguyen and Ockie).
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Evidence from credible sources that provide examples of concepts/issues-
The system model demonstrated and the related archetypes are been analyzed qualitatively. This
provides insights into effective system behavior and then facilitates the determination of systemic
intervention strategies and leverage points needed for sustainable development of the biosphere.
Here, the distinct approach has notable efficiency to be implemented worldwide through
considering the Biosphere Reserves network and different sustainability and complicated issues
faced by society. The study has developed various system tools, techniques, processes regarding
system thinking used in the study.
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Tutorial/online engagement -
In the present world that is resource constraint, there is notable importance to determine the main
leverage points within any system to be controlled sustainably. Those leverage points are the basis
to devise high priority and efficient strategies of system intervention making the best usage of
resources available and then facilitate the development of long-term and sustainable results.
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Examples of connections:
The system thinking encourages in practice to explore various inter-relationships, perspectives and
boundaries. Particularly, this is helpful to address challenging hazardous cases. The issues could
be resolved through just a single actor. Here, more than a complicated system could be understood
totally from just one view-point.
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Possible ideas for my choice of major project drawing on readings, lectures and tutorials
This can also be supplemented substantially through the ongoing studies of PhD within pilot
project. This concentrates on agriculture, tourism and the subsystems that is of socio-ecological of
CBBA systems.
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References:
Nguyen, Nam C., and Ockie JH Bosch. "A systems thinking approach to identify leverage points

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for sustainability: a case study in the Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam." Systems Research and
Behavioral Science 30, no. 2 (2013): 104-115.
Article 2:
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Unit reading I have read
("Introduction To Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker" 2020)
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One Key definition/concepts
The study has been useful to understand various measures for the initial steps to turn into actual
system thinkers. Further, it has provided valuable data on how one would encourage to try using
those powerful viewpoints and several tools in starting the shaping of the future in the new style.
Here, various patterns are discussed and the events that one sees across and the way they can
behave. Lastly, the various causal loops have acted as the evidence as the effective to know the
behavior of systems ("Introduction To Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker" 2020).
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Evidence from credible sources that provide examples of concepts/issues-

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The attention of the manager to the issue of the late parts has led to more number of review
meetings. This tends to make engineers avoid reporting issues in a timely way. In turn, this can
lead to more number of parts that fall behind that schedule.
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Tutorial/online engagement -
I do understand that the mapping can be possible to be unintended and intend the outcomes of
actions under various casual loop figures. It is useful to address and anticipate the issues prior to
they arise. In this 21st century, the system thinking has remained as the main competency of
management. Since the worldwide market is turning to be interwoven globally and tightly and
since the seed of the change rises, people have required to turn into more rousingly system-wise.
More people understand the behavior of the system, more one anticipates the working and
behavior of the systems.
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Examples of connections:
Here, the example depicted the system archetype indicates ad the “Fixes That Fail”. These are set
of eight types of classic types of narrations in various cases around a wide range of businesses.
However, there have been issues with the review meetings found.
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Possible ideas for my choice of major project drawing on readings, lectures and tutorials
Thus for people like me who are new in this area have learned the way to define the system’s

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characteristics.
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References:
"Introduction To Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker". 2020. The Systems Thinker.
https://thesystemsthinker.com/introduction-to-systems-thinking/.
Article 3:
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Unit reading I have read
(Garren and Robert)
2
One Key definition/concepts
That relates to the central unit topics such as systems thinking, socio-ecological systems and
resilience [approximately 30-50 words]
Sustainability can be defined in three manners. Firstly, it can get sustained. The process to sustain
the harvesting and utilizing resources are never depleted and damaged permanently. Moreover,
there is a lifestyle involvement to utilize those sustainable measures (Garren and Robert).
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Evidence from credible sources that provide examples of concepts/issues-
My analysis and judgement of the evidence provided (critical thinking) [approximately 30-80
words]
For instance, the environmental devastation that took place in the Caribbean during 2017, the

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season of hurricane indicates the way people are vulnerable towards the change in the
environment. As the climate and storm extremes make acceleration, it is to be understood whether
human beings can move forward. It is also needed to be understood that whether the behavior to
halt the unsustainable type can be changed before that become much late. It is also seen that
sustainability must be criticized and is the focus on benchmarking and frameworks that are never
totally helpful as those problems develop. It is also noted that the economic systems and the very
government has been promoting the end-less level of consumption and inequality.
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Tutorial/online engagement -
a. Discussions in the unit that I started or participated in and new knowledge I have gained from
them in relation to the reading/s AND/OR
b. Concepts or ideas that I was not sure of and for which I sought clarification from tutor/peers
[approximately 30-50 words for a and/or b]
The study has been a helpful indicator of the situation of sustainability. It searches for how
different themes related to sustainability can manage the way they are been managed altogether.
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Examples of connections:
Between readings/concepts and your knowledge of situations/events that have occurred in your
region within Australia or overseas [ approximately 50 words]
As the way the world is changing is considered. Society must look for many more experts on
sustainability to search for solutions for the issues emerging.
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Possible ideas for my choice of major project drawing on readings, lectures and tutorials
The probable ideas include the significant level of contributions that have been providing
instances of the best practices related to sustainability and displays the lessons that are learned
with constant limitations.
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Garren, Sandra J., and Robert Brinkmann. "Sustainability definitions, historical context, and
frameworks." In The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability, pp. 1-18. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham,
2018.
Article 4:
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Unit reading I have read
(Donella)
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One Key definition/concepts
As messy and complex situations are encountered, system thinking is useful to be aware of the
cases in a systematic manner. It is useful to fetch the bigger picture and from there one might
determine the points of leverage that could be denoted for supporting any sort of constructing
change. This is also useful to fetch the connections present between the features of the situation

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for supporting the joined-up activities (Donella).
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Evidence from credible sources that provide examples of concepts/issues-
For instance, from the analysis 140 various and altered definitions of sustainable development are
found. This has been seen to be clear that there has been a lack of a unified definition of
sustainability. This hinders the capability of assessing sustainability comprehensively and recent
attempts have been there for developing unified definitions.
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Tutorial/online engagement -
Thus it is also known what has been done regarding the drift towards the low performance. We
should be keeping the standards absolute.
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Examples of connections:
The instance of the bad behavior of human beings are been held and has been manifested through
media and is affirmed through culture to be typical. It is the thing that one needs to be expecting.
Nonetheless, this is never good news and is execution. Everyone must not be expected to be
behaving like that.
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Possible ideas for my choice of major project drawing on readings, lectures and tutorials

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There is a gap between implementation and understanding that can be bridged with system
thinking. This leads us to the boundary of what can be done through analysis and make our point
beyond what could be done through the spirit of human beings.
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References:
Donella H. Meadows. LIVING IN A WORLD OF SYSTEMS. Earthscan, 2008.