David Peter Stroh, "Systems Thinking For Social Change"

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Featuring : David Peter Stroh

Topics : [[Systems thinking]]

Gave some examples of how what might solve a problem in the short term, a fix for a symptom, might not get to the underlying problem. For example, homeless shelters might perpetuate homelessness despite providing temporary relief.

See also [[Adam Day, States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance]] for similar discussion of this mistake of fixing symptoms rather than fixing systems.