Proceedings of the United Kingdom Systems Society Conference on title], held in Huddersfield, UK, September 1991. In addition to sections devoted to applications of systems thinking, applications of methodology (both hard and soft), problem structuring and critical systems, thinking, information sy

The theme ofthe conference at which the papers in this book were presented was'Systems Thinking in Europe'. Members of the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS) were conscious that the systems movementflourishes notonly in the UK, America and the Antipodes, but also in continental Europe, both East and West, and in the USSR, a nation increasingly being welcomed by the European comity. Membership of the UKSS had not perhaps had the opportunity, however, of hearing important new ideas from continental Europe, and this conference provided an opportunity to do so. Some interesting papers are to...