Complexity approach to sustainability: theory and application (Record no. 3733)
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| ISBN | 9781848165274 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
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| Classification number | 338.927 |
| Item number | ESP-C |
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| Personal name | Espinosa, Angela |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Complexity approach to sustainability: theory and application |
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| Name of publisher | Imperial College Press |
| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Place of publication | London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxvi,: 361p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Introducing complexity and sustainability. --<br/>1.1. Why we need a new approach. --<br/>1.2. The need for a new paradigm. --<br/>1.3. Sustainability. --<br/>1.4. Conceptual platform : Systems, cybernetics. --<br/>1.5. Sustainability : A review from systemic and complexity approaches. --<br/>1.6. Summary --<br/>2. Viability through complexity management : Revisiting the viable systems model. --<br/>2.1. The conceptual platform. --<br/>2.2. Overview : Three elements, five systems. --<br/>2.3. The five systems. 2.4. Viability through complexity management. --<br/>2.5. Managing complexity in the 3/4/5 homeostat : Team syntegrity. --<br/>2.6. Viable systems, complex adaptive systems and sustainability. --<br/>2.7. Summary --<br/>3. Societies as viable systems : Complexity management and sustainability. --<br/>3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Modelling a sustainable society. --<br/>3.3. VSM criteria for sustainable governance. --<br/>3.4. Approaches, methodologies and tools. --<br/>3.5. Managing complexity in a nation state. --<br/>3.6. Lessons for modelling sustainable societies. --<br/>3.7. Conclusion --<br/>4. Complexity and environmental management. --<br/>4.1. Environmental management : Origins, development, application and assessment. --<br/>4.2. Holistic and complex system approaches to environmental management. --<br/>4.3. Environmental management in business. --<br/>4.4. Case study : Environmental management from the Magdalena River basin--. <br/>4.5. Towards a complexity-based framework for environmental management. --<br/>4.6. Conclusion --<br/>5. Rethinking sustainable development. --<br/>5.1. Approaches to sustainable development. --<br/>5.2. Rethinking the paradigm of development. --<br/>5.3. Self-governance in communities : Developing a European eco-village. --<br/>5.4. From sustainable development to sustainable governance. --<br/>5.5. Case study : Developing a governance system for a national programme against poverty. --<br/>5.6. Conclusions --<br/>6. Envisioning solutions for the required societal transition. --<br/>6.1. The required societal transition. --<br/>6.2. From individuals to families, neighbourhoods, communities and towns. --<br/>6.3. From the eco-region to the continental levels. --<br/>6.4. The global recursion : A planetary society striving towards sustainability.-- <br/>6.5. Conclusions --<br/>7. Conclusions. --<br/>7.1. System 5 : Identity and the need to adopt a new paradigm of sustainable governance. --<br/>7.2. Need for recursive sustainable self-governance. 7.3. Co-evolution between an organisation and its niche. --<br/>7.4. Structural design. --<br/>7.5. Creating a co-evolutionary learning society. --<br/>7.6. Contributions to the development of complexity sciences. --<br/>7.7. Final statement. |
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| Topical Term | Sustainable development |
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