This can be a pragmatic response to the recognition of the complexity and interrelatedness of the systems being managed and the difficulty in identifying the causes of ecological deficits, which are illustrated by the examples from Switzerland.
The spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (resistant to rifampin, isoniazid, quinolones and injectable antituberculous drugs) highlights global vulnerability and interrelatedness of health systems and challenges health equity.
Past decisions on the management of water infrastructure and water resources (as illustrated by Federal legislation and regulation corresponding to the goal "integrated water resources management" in Table 1) have incorporated an increasing recognition of the complexity and interrelatedness of the systems being managed.
The matrix formulation represents a succinct way to characterize the system, providing information on the interrelatedness of the different system components and defining research needs.
Systems science requires the interrelatedness of smaller and larger systems expressing self-affinity and self-similarity, as well as cycle congruity.
There is no simple solution to implementation of best-practices; rather solutions require system-wide approaches that take into account the interrelatedness of agencies, functions and other components of the system.
A whole systems approach, considering the interrelatedness of both problems and solutions, can help create more sustainable designs.
This professional autonomy was reinforced by the fragmented financing system, which ignored the interrelatedness of the actions of physicians and hospitals in the treatment of their patients.
In so doing, we shed light on the multi-scalar interrelatedness of institutional structures and actors in socio-technical systems and elaborate on the implications for the conceptualization of transition dynamics.
This combined with spatial aspects forms social ecological models, which are a component of the fast developing systems science that examines multiple effects and interrelatedness of social elements in an environment (11).
