Systems thinking has been promoted as a way to improve human–environmental interactions, but analytical approaches to measure degrees of systems thinking remain elusive. If more complex thinking does improve sustainable decision-making, new methods to validate this prevalent hypothesis must be developed.
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Gray, S. Measuring systems thinking. Nat Sustain 1, 388–389 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0121-1
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