Systems Thinking – Sustainability as an Organizing Design Principle
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1. Sustainability as an Organizing Design Principle for Large-Scale Engineering Systems
Go to the report: (http://esd.mit.edu/symposium/pdfs/monograph/sustainability.pdf)
a. According to monograph, how are the systems related with sustainability?
b. What are the principles of sustainable transportation?
c. Explain the relationship between physical systems, natural systems, and man-made systems.
d. Define the term “Complex, Large-Scale, Integrated, Open Systems”, and briefly explain.
e. According to Mexico City case, to make the sustainability of the physical systems viable what kind of structures they need to consider? And why?
f. According to Ford case, “sustainability is manifest in countless operating decisions”. Explain why?
g. What do you understand from “knowledge-driven work system”?
