The Social, the Ecological, and the AdaptiveVan Assche, K., Verschraegen, G., Valentinov, V., & Gruezmacher, M. (2019). The social, the ecological, and the adaptive. Von Bertalanffy’s general systems theory and the adaptive governance of social‐ecological systems. Systems Research & Behavioral Science, 36(3), 308–321.
This journal article explores the general systems theory (GST) ideas conveyed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy and the relevance to numerous disciplines and various systems.