A COMPLEXITY APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY : Theory and Application.

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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.
Temas:
Environmental management.
Sustainable development.
System analysis.
Systems Analysis
Environnement > Gestion.
Développement durable.
Analyse de systèmes.
environmental control.
sustainable development.
systems analysis.
Environmental management
Sustainable development
System analysis
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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