Defra Launches Systems Research Programme

Today, [3rd May, 2019] my team officially launches a new Defra Science project – the Systems Research Programme.

This programme breaks new ground by taking a “systems-thinking” approach to understanding the key policy questions across the Defra group. Defra manages different systems such as the food, water, waste, land use or marine. These systems involve many components which interact in defined ways at various scales. By mapping these systems – identifying the interdependencies between different components and relating these two areas of the Defra Portfolio – we have the opportunity to consider how Defra works and whether this needs to change.

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Defra press release
Professor Ian Boyd’s blog