Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
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Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
Interactions among the three levels (landscape, regime and niche) are social, technical, institutional, infrastructural and normative and involve both material and non-material factors.
Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
- Describe the impact this movement produces on the next element.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
(in increasing order of effectiveness)
- Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).
- Regulating negative feedback loops.
- Driving positive feedback loops.
- Material flows and nodes of material intersection.
- Information flows.
- The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).
- The distribution of po
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
as you add links, to test them also as “loops.” Identify each new loop as “balancing” (moving toward stability) or “reinforcing” (pushing growth or decline) based only on its behavior: regardless of the number of factors or elements it contains, or its position in the diagram.