Complex. System. Governance. Polinpapilinho F. Katina Abstract This chapter articulates the utility of system pathology ... 1 Introduction The operating landscape for systems in the 21st century has been described as ambiguous, complex, ...
Scharpf (1997), for instance, uses the rational choice literature to characterize strategy patterns in decision-making for ... These emergent patterns can be analyzed rationally in an attempt to construct ideal types, as Scharpf does, ...
Complexity and Ecosystem Management: The Theory and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ... Governing through Goals: The Sustainable Development Goals and a New Governance Strategy in the 21st Century.
Bebchuk and Roe's analysis has, however, been contested on the grounds that it depends upon visualizing society as a single rational decision-making unit, and path dependence as an essentially technical phenomenon (Schmidt and Spindler, ...
A policy is by itself a complex system involving actors, material (natural resources, infrastructures, financial resources, etc.) and cognitive resources (data, knowledge, norms), which state changes under process' and actors' actions.
This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure.
London: Macmillan. Christian, D. (2011) A Single Historical Continuum. Cliodynamics, 2(1), 6–26. Davies, R.W. (1987) From E.H Carr's Files: Notes Towards a Second Edition of What is History? In: Carr, E.H. and Davies, R.W. (eds.) ...
As this book demonstrates, complexity inquiry provides numerous theoretical frameworks, approaches and associated tools for looking into the black box of causality.
Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy Research Marijn Janssen, Maria A ... innovative approaches to policy development processes. These innovative approaches proved to be particularly ...
It is emerging as a foregone conclusion that space systems need to be viewed and treated as critical infrastructures, but this also creates challenges for decision makers at the highest level through the very act of designation.