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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | World Scientific series on complexity science ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. 1.5. Sustainability : A review from systemic and complexity approaches. 1.6. Summary
- 2. Viability through complexity management : Revisiting the viable systems model. 2.1. The conceptual platform. 2.2. Overview : Three elements, five systems. 2.3. The five systems. 2.4. Viability through complexity management. 2.5. Managing complexity in the 3/4/5 homeostat : Team syntegrity. 2.6. Viable systems, complex adaptive systems and sustainability. 2.7. Summary
- 3. Societies as viable systems : Complexity management and sustainability. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Modelling a sustainable society. 3.3. VSM criteria for sustainable governance. 3.4. Approaches, methodologies and tools. 3.5. Managing complexity in a nation state. 3.6. Lessons for modelling sustainable societies. 3.7. Conclusion
- 4. Complexity and environmental management. 4.1. Environmental management : Origins, development, application and assessment. 4.2. Holistic and complex system approaches to environmental management. 4.3. Environmental management in business. 4.4. Case study : Environmental management from the Magdalena River basin. 4.5. Towards a complexity-based framework for environmental management. 4.6. Conclusion
- 5. Rethinking sustainable development. 5.1. Approaches to sustainable development. 5.2. Rethinking the paradigm of development. 5.3. Self-governance in communities : Developing a European eco-village. 5.4. From sustainable development to sustainable governance. 5.5. Case study : Developing a governance system for a national programme against poverty. 5.6. Conclusions
- 6. Envisioning solutions for the required societal transition. 6.1. The required societal transition. 6.2. From individuals to families, neighbourhoods, communities and towns. 6.3. From the eco-region to the continental levels. 6.4. The global recursion : A planetary society striving towards sustainability. 6.5. Conclusions
- 7. Conclusions. 7.1. System 5 : Identity and the need to adopt a new paradigm of sustainable governance. 7.2. Need for recursive sustainable self-governance. 7.3. Co-evolution between an organisation and its niche. 7.4. Structural design. 7.5. Creating a co-evolutionary learning society. 7.6. Contributions to the development of complexity sciences. 7.7. Final statement.