1)View the first 9 minutes, 15 seconds of the following video, answer questions.
Capra. F. (Aug 2010). The Web of Life (excerpt) –Thinking Allowed, with Dr. Mishlove.
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a) What are the three main points of systems thinking described in the video?
b) Why are relationships important in using systems thinking?
2) Read the following assignment, answer questions.
Senge, P. (2006). The Fifth Discipline. Appendix 2, Systems Archetypes. pp. 389-400.
a) How can Systems Archetypes be used?
b) Give examples of the following Archetypes. Use current events or personal
experience that are different from examples in the reading.
o Tragedy of the Commons
o Fixes that Fail
o Limits-to-Growth
c) What are the two possibilities for the Limits-to-Growth archetype, i.e., when growth
or decay is limited, in what two ways could system behavior change?
d) For the in-class exercise on Body Temperature, which we expressed as a Fixes that Fail
archetype, describe what happened in the reinforcing loop – why did it cause the
original solution to fail? Variables: Outdoor temperature, Indoor temperature, Body
temperature, Clothing on the body, Available clothing
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