Coping with System Sustainability: A Sociocybernetics Model for Social-Economic System Architecture

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 263-273

  Bai, Guohua ^a   Henesey, Lawrence ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autopoiesis; Feedback; Liveability; Social activities; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861477606     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.1134     Document Type: Article

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