A new - 4th order cybernetics and sustainable future

Kybernetes

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 670-684

  Božičnik, Stane ^a   Mulej, Matjaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

(Universal) Dialectical Systems Theory; Cybernetics; Cybernetics of the 4th order; Economic sustainability; Requisite holism and wholeness; Sustainable future

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961046324     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921111142232     Document Type: Article

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