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From Ecology to an Extension of Systems-analysis

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Considering Man in the context of the whole of his needs, an eco-systematic approach will aim to supply to him the whole of those organizations, policies, installations, products etc., which fulfil those very needs. The ‘function’ existing between both kind of factors may be solved systematically by a semantic translation of the variables representing them.

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Mertens, R. (1978). From Ecology to an Extension of Systems-analysis. In: Rose, J. (eds) Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_172

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