Jantsch (Ed.) Perspectives of Planning
Complexity and scale of problems are forcing decisions to be made at levels where individual participation of those affected is increasingly remote, producing a crisis which threatens our whole future. Hence the planning function and related arts such as forecasting assume new significance.
Following the opening of The Club of Rome in May 1968 where the 'world problematique' was roughly identified as 'the' problem, a group of leading systems thinkers met in Bellagio to develop methodological venues to solution.
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