Ray Ison

Ray Ison is Professor of Systems at the Open University (UK), an Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS, Sydney and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development.  His book The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking. Governance in a Climate Emergency, co-authored with Ed Straw, was recently published by Routledge.

Ray's recent articles

Cock-ups, conspiracies or system failures?

What we now call cock-ups, getting things wrong, being in the wrong place and so on, emerged from the despair and fatalism experienced by troops in World War I. As the pandemic reveals, the propensity for the folly of human action, for cock-ups, persists.

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