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Meta-system

A metasystem or meta-system is a "system about other systems", such as describing, generalizing, modelling, or analyzing the other system(s). It links the concepts of a system and meta. Aurelio Peccei conceived of environmental degradation, poverty, population health challenges, urban decay, and criminality as comprising an interrelated, generalized meta-problem — a meta-system of problems he termed the problematic.

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A metasystem or meta-system is a "system about other systems",1 such as describing, generalizing, modelling, or analyzing the other system(s). It links the concepts of a system and meta. Aurelio Peccei conceived of environmental degradation, poverty, population health challenges, urban decay, and criminality as comprising an interrelated, generalized meta-problem — a meta-system of problems he termed the problematic.2

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  1. Palmer, Kent D. (July 2000). "9.6 Meta‐systems Engineering". INCOSE International Symposium. 10 (1): 889–904. doi:10.1002/j.2334-5837.2000.tb00470.x. ISSN 2334-5837.
  2. "The Predicament of Mankind" (PDF). 1970. pp. 12–13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2016-05-13.