Complexity approach to sustainability: theory and application

By:

Espinosa, Angela

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Imperial College Press 2011 LondonDescription: xxvi,: 361pISBN:

9781848165274

Subject(s):

Sustainable development

DDC classification:

338.927 ESP-C

Contents:

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.

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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.

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