This book is about a new methodological approach to planning. The book is organized according to conceptual frameworkwhich links the concepts of systems and planning and suggest a methodologival tool for integrating the two.
Part I.
Presents the basic ideas behind complexity, systems, hierarchies and priorization.
Part.II
The book introduces planning as a unique form of decision making with illustrations of some prominent philosophical and methodological approaches. In particular, we discuss some shortcomings of traditional approaches to planning and illustrate how the systems approach addresses this shortcomings
This book is intended as an introduction to the subject designed for both researchers and practitioners.