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Systems Approaches and Their Application

Examples from Sweden

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Mats-Olov Olsson

    1. Centre for Regional Science (Cerum), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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  2. Gunnar Sjöstedt

    1. The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Concerns a single nation, but simultaneously contains a broad overview of systems analysis in a number of important issue areas, for research as well as practice, against a penetrating background description of what systems analysis is, how it functions, what problems it represents and what results

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Systems Approach: History and Schools of Thinking

    1. Systems and Systems Theory

      • Mats-Olov Olsson, Gunnar Sjöstedt
      Pages 3-29

    2. Schools of Systems Thinking - Development Trends in Systems Methodology

      • Mats-Olov Olsson
      Pages 31-74

  3. Systems Analysis in Sweden - Examples of Projects Using a Systems Approach

    1. Systems Analysis in Geography

      • Stefan Anderberg
      Pages 79-93

    2. Multi-Agent Systems, Time Geography, and Microsimulations

      • Magnus Boman, Einar Holm
      Pages 95-118

    3. Analyzing Biological Systems: The Brain as an Example

      • Hans Liljenström, Peter Århem
      Pages 119-142

    4. Defining the Concept of Sustainability - a Matter of Systems Thinking and Applied Systems Analysis

      • Harald Sverdrup, Mats G. E. Svensson
      Pages 143-164

  4. Systems Analysis in Sweden - Examples of Projects Using a Systems Approach

    1. Scenario-Based Methodologies for Strategy Development and Management of Change

      • E. Anders Eriksson
      Pages 167-194

    2. “Sweden in the Year 2021” - A Systems Study of Sweden’s Future Environment

      • Anita Linell
      Pages 195-208

    3. Environmental Accounts - A Tool for Interdisciplinary Analysis

      • Sofia Ahlroth
      Pages 209-217

    4. Environmental Systems Analysis - Some Ongoing Research and Ideas About Future Developments

      • Anna Björklund
      Pages 219-226

    5. Some Properties of Environmental Systems Analysis Tools - Life Cycle Assessment as an Example

      • Göran Finnveden, Tomas Ekvall, Åsa Moberg
      Pages 227-235

    6. Systems Approaches in Development Work

      • Semida Silveira
      Pages 237-251

    7. The Systems Approach in Research on International Relations: The WTO Negotiations

      • Gunnar Sjöstedt
      Pages 253-265

  5. Systems Analysis in Sweden - Examples of Projects Using a Systems Approach

    1. Humans and Complex Systems: Sustainable Information Societies

      • Rune Gustavsson, Martin Fredriksson
      Pages 269-289

    2. Large Technical Systems: a Multidisciplinary Research Tradition

      • Lena Ewertsson, Lars Ingelstam
      Pages 291-309

  6. Development Trends, Future Prospects and Needs

    1. Systemic Interventions in Sweden: Some Discernible Patterns

      • Mats-Olov Olsson, Gunnar Sjöstedt
      Pages 313-335

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 337-340
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About this book

In the development of an international agenda for applied systems analysis Swedish experience, developed over a considerable number of years, embraces a wide range of application domains. One international focal point for the Swedish interest in systems analysis has been – the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, with its headquarters in Laxenburg outside Vienna. The Swedish Research Council for Env- onment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) is currently responsible for the Swedish contacts with . When Formas was established in it inherited the Swedish national committee for the promotion of contacts and systems a- lysis that was originally set up by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (frn ), which was abolished in conjunction with a major reform of the Swedish research ?nancing system. Within the framework of the Committee a special project was launched in line with a proposal by Gunnar Sjöstedt dealing with the Swedish experience in s- tems analysis and thus, indirectly, with themes related to most of ’s activities. The project co-ordination and editorial tasks were given to Mats-Olov Olsson and Gunnar Sjöstedt under the direct surveillance of the Committee. Many of the Committee m- bers and their co-workers as well as several other Swedish scholars have contributed to this book. Several years of work have gone into bringing together Swedish experience in this ?eld, and we hope that the book will be interesting for an international as well as for a Swedish audience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Regional Science (Cerum), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Mats-Olov Olsson

  • The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, Sweden

    Gunnar Sjöstedt

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