Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation
从认识论角度区分社会系统观察的“周遭世界”与外部“环境”，指出对环境的忽视是重大挑战的根源，并建议组织通过智能自我限制来弥补社会应对能力的不足。
This commentary presents an epistemological perspective on grand challenges (GCs) suggesting that the distinction between Umwelt (what social systems observe) and environment (the surrounding but unobserved world) can help us provide deeper analyses of GCs. I argue that indifference to the environment outside the observed Umwelt is a root cause of GCs and suggest that organizations must compensate for society’s inability to address GCs by developing forms of intelligent self-limitation.