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A COMPLEXITY APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY : Theory and Application.

A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing this issue has not filtered down into effect...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Espinosa Salazar, Angela Ma. (Angela María)
Otros Autores: Walker, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011.
Colección:World Scientific series on complexity science.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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490 1 |a SERIES ON COMPLEXITY SCIENCE 
505 0 |a Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Index of Figures; Index of Tables; 1 Introducing Complexity and Sustainability; 1.1. WHY WE NEED A NEW APPROACH; 1.2. THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM; 1.3. SUSTAINABILITY; 1.4. CONCEPTUAL PLATFORM: SYSTEMS, CYBERNETICS AND COMPLEXITY; 1.4.1. Systems; 1.4.2. Cybernetics; 1.4.3. Complex Systems; 1.5. SUSTAINABILITY: A REVIEW FROM SYSTEMICAND COMPLEXITY APPROACHES; 1.5.1. Holistic and Ecological Thinking; 1.5.2. A Systemic Approach to Sustainability; 1.5.3. Revisiting the Idea of Sustainabilityfrom a Complexity Approach. 
505 8 |a 1.5.4. Sustainability and Governance1.6. SUMMARY; 2 Viability through ComplexityManagement: Revisiting the Viable Systems Model; 2.1. THE CONCEPTUAL PLATFORM; 2.1.1 Inspiration; 2.1.2. Models and Observers; 2.1.3 Co-evolution: Organisms in their Niche; 2.1.4. Recursion: Systems within Systems within Systems; 2.1.5. Variety, Requisite Variety and Variety Engineering; 2.2. OVERVIEW: THREE ELEMENTS, FIVE SYSTEMS; 2.2.1. The Three Elements: Environment, Operation and Meta-system; 2.2.2. The Three Elements as a Homeostatic System; 2.2.3. The Five Systems: Physiological Inspiration. 
505 8 |a 2.2.4. Diagrammatic Representation2.3. THE FIVE SYSTEMS; 2.3.1. System 1; 2.3.2. System 2; 2.3.3. System 3; 2.3.4. System 3*; 2.3.5. System 4; 2.3.6. System 5; 2.4. VIABILITY THROUGH COMPLEXITYMANAGEMENT; 2.4.1. Review: Operation, Meta-system and Environment; 2.4.2. An Example: An Individual as a Viable System; 2.4.3. Variety Engineering: Vertical and Horizontal Axes; 2.4.4. Meta-systemic Management; 2.4.5. Homeostasis and Self-regulation; 2.4.6. Real-time Management; 2.5. MANAGING COMPLEXITY IN THE 3/4/5 HOMEOSTAT: TEAM SYNTEGRITY. 
505 8 |a 2.6. VIABLE SYSTEMS, COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY2.7. SUMMARY; 3 Societies as Viable Systems: Complexity Management and Sustainability; 3.1. INTRODUCTION; 3.2. MODELLING A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY; 3.2.1. First: Co-evolution with the Environment; 3.2.2. Second: Autonomy and Cohesion; 3.2.3. Third: Recursive Governance; 3.3. VSM CRITERIA FOR SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE; 3.4. APPROACHES, METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS; 3.4.1. Our Approach to Facilitate Organisational Transformations; 3.4.2. VSM Methodologies and Applications; 3.4.3. A Framework to Facilitate Organisational Self-Transformation. 
505 8 |a 3.4.4. Team Syntegrity -- Methodology and Applications3.5. MANAGING COMPLEXITY IN A NATION STATE; 3.5.1. Modelling the Nation State: A Colombian Case Study (1998); 3.5.2. Modelling the Social Economy: The Cybersyn Project(1972, 1973); 3.5.3. Case Study: The Gorgona Syntegration (Colombia, 1996); 3.6. LESSONS FOR MODELLING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES; 3.7. CONCLUSION; 4 Complexity and EnvironmentalManagement; 4.1. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION AND ASSESSMENT; 4.1.1. Environmental Management Origins; 4.1.2. Environmental Management Development. 
500 |a 4.1.3. Environmental Management Application. 
520 |a A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing this issue has not filtered down into effective practice - notably, there remain problems caused by the legacy of competing paradigms and the application of their associated methodologies. This book argues the urgency for the application of analytical tools that embody the principles of complexity management. The authors describe a theoretica. 
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