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|a Espinosa Salazar, Angela Ma.
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|a A complexity approach to sustainability
|b theory and application /
|c Angela Espinosa, Jon Walker.
|h [electronic resource] :
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|a London :
|a Singapore :
|b Imperial College Press ;
|b Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
|c c2011.
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|a xxvii, 361 p. :
|b ill. (some col.)
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|a Series on complexity science ;
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-338) and indexes.
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|a 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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|a 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 effective practice - notably, there remain problems caused by the legacy of competing paradigms and the application of their associated methodologies. This book argues the urgency for the application of analytical tools that embody the principles of complexity management. The authors describe a theoretical framework based on complexity science with a focus on organisational and second order cybernetics, one that presents a powerful new insight into the concept of sustainability. The book also describes actual applications of the ideas in the area of organisational, societal and environmental management, as well as reflects upon the impact of such an approach on current practice.
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|a Electronic reproduction.
|b Singapore :
|c World Scientific Publishing Co.,
|d 2011.
|n System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
|n Mode of access: World Wide Web.
|n Available to subscribing institutions.
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|a Sustainable development.
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|a Environmental management.
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|a System analysis.
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