TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS: A HOLISTIC, INTERDISCIPLINARY AND SYSTEMIC APPROACH

Towards Sustainable Food Systems: a Holistic, Interdisciplinary and Systemic Approach

One of the biggest challenges facing humanity is achieving sustainable food security in the face of population growth, resource scarcity, ecosystem degradation and climate change. Transitioning towards sustainable food systems (SFS) is a must for achieving sustainable development. This review paper highlights the need to adopt a holistic, multidimensional, interdisciplinary and systemic approac...

Food Safety Accounting: As a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach in Iran

A Systemic Activity based Approach for Holistic Learning & Training Systems

Corporate environments treat work activity related to processing information and the one of learning & professional training (L&T) separately, by keeping L&T on a low priority scale, and perceiving little dependency between both activities. Yet, our preliminary analysis of an organisation has revealed that both activities mutually affect each other. Wholes or parts of corporate information and ...

Towards a systemic holistic security management

Information System Security and its management ”is a parasite on the profit”. Gerald Kovacich. This thesis presents research intended to modify the understanding of information system security and to introduce information system security not only as a cost factor but also as a business enabler for eCommerce systems. To achieve this, system theoretic concepts will be applied to information secur...

AREA STUDIES versus DISCIPLINES TOWARDS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY, SYSTEMIC COUNTRY APPROACH

The paper argues for a truly interdisciplinary, synergistic area approach, for applying cybersystemic and holistic thinking in the study of countries (regions of the world), for awakening to the interdependence and complementarity of different disciplines, concerned with the study of aspects of the world. At their very best, area studies are no more than multidisciplinary in character. Consisti...