This text offers ancient and modern writings that address learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities and education to nursing and public policy. It includes tools and suggestions for new ways of being and acting in relation to each other.
Chris Blackmore is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Development Systems at the Open University. She develops open learning courses in systems and in environmental decision making at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her main research area, in which she has a range of publications, is in learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making, including issues of social learning, systems thinking, systemic change, sustainability and responsibility.