The climate change playbook : 22 systems thinking games for more effective communication about climate change, Dennis Meadows, Linda Booth Sweeney, and Gillian Martin Mehers

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The climate change playbook : 22 systems thinking games for more effective communication about climate change, Dennis Meadows, Linda Booth Sweeney, and Gillian Martin Mehers

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22 systems thinking games for more effective communication about climate change

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Dennis Meadows, Linda Booth Sweeney, and Gillian Martin Mehers

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• The climate change playbook : 22 systems thinking games for more effective communication about climate change

Publication

• White River Junction, Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016

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• ©2016

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index

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• nc

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• txt

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Contents

• Avalanche
• Understand the implicit rules. They can produce different results than desired or expected
• 3.
• Balancing Tubes
• You can't achieve long-term goals with short-term perspective
• 4.
• The Bathtub Game
• A level will decline only if outflows are greater than inflows
• 5.
• Biodiversity Game
• Machine-generated contents note:
• You can't change only one thing
• 6.
• Circles in the Air
• Our perspective affects the actions we take in complex systems
• 7.
• Frames
• To obtain consensus be clear about the mental framework you are using
• 8.
• Group Juggle
• Adding one more apparently minor problem can sometimes collapse the whole system
• How to Use This Book
• 9.
• Hands Down
• When trying to understand a complex situation, don't limit your focus to where the action is
• 10.
• Harvest
• Guiding Ideas
• 22 Games
• 1.
• Arms Crossed
• When conditions change, habits must change
• 2.
• Paper Fold
• With exponential growth, small growth rates can quickly lead to extremely-large numbers
• 14.
• Paper Tear
• One-way communication is much less effective than interaction
• 15.
• Pens
• Sustainability depends more on culture than on technology
• 16.
• Space for Living
• Over the long-term, individuals often get more from cooperation than from competition
• Thinking outside the box can produce win-win solutions
• 17.
• Squaring the Circle
• Without a shared goal, cooperation is ineffective
• 18.
• Thumb Wrestling
• Life is not a zero-sum game
• 19.
• Triangles
• If you want big changes, look for the high-leverage points
• 11.
• 20.
• Warped Juggle
• Hit the Target
• Delays between perception and response can lead to overshooting the goal
• 12.
• Living Loops
• It's easier to reach your goals by building a system that achieves them for you
• 13.
• Incremental changes produce improvements; structural changes produce transformation
• 21.
• Web of Life
• To better understand systems, make the interconnections visible
• 22.
• 1-2-3-Go!
• Actions speak louder than words

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926743353

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23 cm

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x, 176 pages

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9781603586764

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2016000955

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unmediated

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• n

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655

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.b16361702

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(OCoLC)926743353