Environmental management revisited: Lessons from a cybernetic intervention in Colombia

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-92

  Espinosa, A ^a   Walker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CYBERNETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATIONS; COMPLEXITY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 29044444754     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: 10876553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01969720591008724     Document Type: Review

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