The Systems Theory Paradigm

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer

Systems Theory is finding increasing relevance in fields as diverse as behavioral economics and water resource management. Systems Theory is a new scientific paradigm or conceptual framework; a set of underlying principles and understandings about how natural systems work, and perhaps more importantly, how to work with natural systems.

Conventional engineering disciplines have tended to wrestle with nature and the life sciences in what has become a fight against the natural processes of biochemistry, microbiology and the systems paradigm reality of their existence.

Systems Theory has brought invaluable insight and innovation to the development of the Biotechnology Solution Platform (BSP) in two ways:

  1. It has revealed the mechanisms and processes by which natural systems are disrupted and robbed of their recuperative abilities. (This, after all, is the root cause of the Global Water Crisis.)
  2. It has led to the discovery of ways in which to implement solutions that are synergistic and supportive of these natural system capabilities to strengthen their inertia to disruption.

The Water Cycle is actually a complex adaptive system. Like all high order systems, it has many levels of sub-systems nested within it, because all systems are interconnected.

Integrated Water Resource Management strategy must be architected as an integrated systemic solution which supports of all the nested sub-systems that exist within the scope of the strategy. Unless Systems Theory and Biotechnology are integrated into IWRM strategy, it will be flawed and successful implementation will not be possible.

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