Complex Systems Theory And Development Practice

Author : Samir Rihani
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Complexity (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1842770470

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Complex Systems Theory and Development Practice by Samir Rihani Pdf

"Ranging over a wide terrain of social, political and economic thinking and specific country experiences, the author explains the key concepts in complex systems theory and their possible applications in development practice. He examines various development issues and institutions in the light of what he sees as the limitations of rigid linear thinking in an essentially fluid, non-linear world. Little wonder, he concludes, that the results of half a century of development effort have been so disappointing."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles B. Keating,Polinpapilinho F. Katina,Charles W. Chesterman Jr.,James C. Pyne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030938529

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Complex System Governance by Charles B. Keating,Polinpapilinho F. Katina,Charles W. Chesterman Jr.,James C. Pyne Pdf

This book explores Complex System Governance (CSG)—an emerging field concerned with the design, execution, and evolution of essential functions necessary to ensure continued viability of a system. The book focuses on three primary development areas to better understand and utilize current developments CSG. First, the conceptual foundations for CSG are developed, from systems theory, management cybernetics, and governance. Second, a set of critical CSG topics are examined from conceptual as well as practice perspectives. Third, several development and application issues are discussed. Ultimately, CSG is positioned as an emerging field with strong theoretical grounding and significant implications for improving practices and performance to better address complex systems and their problems.

Author : Shannon Flumerfelt,Katherine G. Schwartz,Dimitri Mavris,Simon Briceno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 1624105653

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Complex Systems Engineering by Shannon Flumerfelt,Katherine G. Schwartz,Dimitri Mavris,Simon Briceno Pdf

Author : Emery Brusset,Cedric de Coning,Bryn Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137601117

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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation by Emery Brusset,Cedric de Coning,Bryn Hughes Pdf

This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream approaches – presenting both conceptual and empirical content. This volume offers a variety of original and insightful contributions to the debates grappling with the adoption of complexity thinking. Insights from Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation addresses the core dilemma that practitioners have to confront: how to function in situations that are fast changing and complex, when equipped with tools designed for neither? How do we reconcile the tension between the use of linear causal logic and the dynamic political transitions that interventions are meant to assist? Readers will be given a rare opportunity to superimpose the latest conceptual innovations with the latest case study applications and from a diverse spectrum of organisational vantage points. This provides the myriad practitioners and consultants in this space with invaluable insights as to how to improve their trade craft, while ensuring policy makers and the accompanying research/academic industry have clearer guidance and innovative thinking. This edited volume provides critically innovative offerings for the audiences that make up this broad area’s practitioners, researchers/academics/educators, and consultants, as well as policy makers.

Author : G. Rzevski,C.A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781784662356

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Complex Systems by G. Rzevski,C.A. Brebbia Pdf

Containing papers presented at the 2016 New Forest Conference on Complex Systems, this multi-disciplinary book presents new approaches for resolving complex issues that cannot be resolved using conventional mathematical or software models. Complex Systems occur in an infinite variety of problems encompassing fields as diverse as economics, the environment, humanities, social and political sciences, physical sciences and engineering. The papers in the book cover such topics as: Complex business processes; Supply chain complexity; Complex adaptive software; Management of complexity; Complexity in social systems; Complexity in engineering; Complex issues in biological and medical sciences; Complex energy systems Complexity and evolution.

Author : Charles T. Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317801689

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UN Peace Operations and International Policing by Charles T. Hunt Pdf

This book addresses the important question of how the United Nations (UN) should monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations. UN peace operations are a vital component of international conflict management. Since the end of the Cold War one of the foremost developments has been the rise of UN policing (UNPOL). Instances of UNPOL action have increased dramatically in number and have evolved from passive observation to participation in frontline law enforcement activities. Attempts to ascertain the impact of UNPOL activities have proven inadequate. This book seeks to redress this lacuna by investigating the ways in which the effects of peace operations – and UNPOL in particular – are monitored and evaluated. Furthermore, it aims to develop a framework, tested through field research in Liberia, for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) that enables more effective impact assessment. By enhancing the relationship between field-level M&E and organisational learning this research aims to make an important contribution to the pursuit of more professional and effective UN peace operations. This book will be of much interest to students of peace operations, conflict management, policing, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Neil E. Harrison,Robert Geyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000466041

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Governing Complexity in the 21st Century by Neil E. Harrison,Robert Geyer Pdf

Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. It shows how this complexity impacts every aspect of life for individuals, governments and societies in most social systems at individual, regional, national and global scales and explores how embracing ‘complexity thinking’ can greatly improve the art of governance in all policy areas. The book clearly explains the ideas and methods of complexity science—widely accepted in both the natural and social sciences—then demonstrates how ‘complexity thinking’ can be applied to improve our understanding of governance and policy actions. Providing a deep analysis of many governance challenges, including economic development and technological innovation, environment management, climate change and development in the Middle East, the book also compares national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Clear and jargon-free, this book is accessible to undergraduates and scholars alike. It is essential reading for policymakers everywhere, showcasing methods for governing effectively and efficiently in our increasingly complex world. It brings together the broad range of social and environmental science fields and will be useful for those studying or working in policy, politics and international relations, environmental issues, business management, philosophy, history and sociology.

Author : Espinosa Angela,Walker Jon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786342058

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Complexity Approach To Sustainability, A: Theory And Application (Second Edition) by Espinosa Angela,Walker Jon Pdf

Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great importance in modern-day socio-economic study. Despite this, the impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing these issues has not yet filtered down into effective practice. This book argues that there is a need for urgency in the application of analytical tools which embody the principles of complexity management in sustainability research, in particular in the context of the global climate change. The approach presented is based on the concept of clusters of whole systems coming together through collaboration, in order to create larger wholes capable of dealing with the issues facing our socio-economic environmental systems. In this updated second edition, the authors further clarify the viability and sustainability (V&S) approach, and the criteria and framework needed for sustainable governance. It includes a more detailed perspective on the implications of the V&S approach to businesses and networks towards changes in structure, strategy and processes, inspired by specific case studies. Key additions include a criteria for designing more viable and sustainable self-governed organizations, the methodologies and tools to design and implement self-transformations towards sustainability, and how these tools support sustainability management individually and globally, for businesses and society.

Author : Bernard Amadei
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000992038

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Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace–Sustainability–Climate Security Nexus by Bernard Amadei Pdf

Promoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity's challenges of the twenty-first century. There is enough evidence that peace, sustainability, and climate security are entangled with multiple complex interactions and cannot be dealt with in isolation and independently from the environment and the numerous systems with which they interact. Yet, the intersection of peace, sustainability, and climate security or their opposites (i.e., conflict, unsustainability, and climate vulnerability) is rarely articulated with a systemic mindset. A multi-solving nexus approach is more appropriate to capture the complexity and uncertainty of how the three sectors of peace, sustainability, and climate security play a role in community development, the nature of their causal chains, and the feedback on how community development affects the three sectors. Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace–Sustainability–Climate Security Nexus explores the value proposition of using a systems approach, methodology, and tools to comprehend and model that dynamic. Features of the book: Explores the interaction between the different components of peace and the relationship between peace, sustainability, and climate security using semi-qualitative and quantitative tools; Explains how climate adaptation and mitigation are related to peace or conflict; Presents generic system dynamics modeling that can be used in different contexts.

Author : Jan Bogg,Robert Geyer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781498791229

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Complexity, Science and Society by Jan Bogg,Robert Geyer Pdf

'The following sections are a very good representation of the core developments of complexity thinking in a number of major fields. Our intention is to provide an accessible interdisciplinary introduction to the wonderful intellectual breadth that complexity can offer.' - Jan Bogg and Robert Geyer in the Introduction. Complexity is a new and exciting interdisciplinary approach to science and society that challenges traditional academic divisions, frameworks and paradigms. This book helps the expert, student or policy practitioner have a better understanding of the enormous potential of complexity, and how it relates to their particular area of interest or expertise. It provides excellent representations of the core developments of complexity thinking in a number of major fields. "Complexity, Science and Society" brings together an unrivalled selection of new applications of complexity from leading experts across subjects including medicine and healthcare, education, public policy and social theory, ecology, philosophy, international politics, the arts, modelling and design, and others. Together they offer an unprecedented review of the latest developments. This book is an accessible interdisciplinary introduction to the wonderful intellectual breadth that complexity can offer.

Author : Nicola Labanca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319337531

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Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions by Nicola Labanca Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into consideration to provide deeper insights into the evolution of energy systems. The book then draws a series of important conclusions and makes recommendations for the research community and policy makers involved in the design and implementation of policies for sustainable energy transitions.

Author : Robert Geyer,Samir Rihani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135153489

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Complexity and Public Policy by Robert Geyer,Samir Rihani Pdf

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm, development, planning and terrorism. The authors argue that the foundation for many of the current crises in these areas can be traced to the attempt by social scientists and policy-makers to treat these systems and processes as fundamentally orderly, predictable and controllable. By providing an overview of complex systems, a practical introduction to basic concepts and tools of these systems, and examples for understanding and managing them in real life policy situations they provide an exciting new perspective for rethinking our basic approaches to the social sciences and for understanding and managing the increasingly interdependent world of public policy. The book is vital reading for students and scholars of the social sciences and public policy, and also policymakers and the policy actor audience.

Author : Shannon Flumerfelt,Katherine G. Schwartz,Dimitri Mavris,Simon Briceno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 1624105645

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Complex Systems Engineering by Shannon Flumerfelt,Katherine G. Schwartz,Dimitri Mavris,Simon Briceno Pdf

Presents state-of-the-art thought leadership on system complexity for aerospace and aviation, where breakthrough paradigms and strategies are sorely needed. The breadth of topics covered provide an enriched view of all types of systems-technical, machine, and human systems - to both practitioners and academics.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799824497

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Foreign Direct Investments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

Globalization, accelerated by information technologies, has increased the speed of business transactions and has reduced the distances between international businesses. This growth has transformed the realm of foreign investment in countries around the world, calling for a methodological approach to planning feasible capital investment proposals in general and foreign direct investment projects. Foreign Direct Investments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that explores the importance of global stocks to economic structures and explores the effects that these holdings have on the financial status of nations. It also provides a systems approach to investment projects in a globalized and open society. Highlighting a range of topics such as foreign direct investors, risk analysis, and sourcing strategies, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for business managers, executives, international companies, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, graduate students, policymakers, investors, and project managers.

Author : Emily Finlay,Patrick Kilby,Rochelle Spencer,Joyce Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040090398

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Rethinking Gender in Development Practice by Emily Finlay,Patrick Kilby,Rochelle Spencer,Joyce Wu Pdf

Rethinking Gender in Development Practice is about the ways in which issues of gender—including violence against women and girls, entrenched gender roles and expectations, the exclusion of non-binary genders, and the participation of disempowered genders—affect and are affected by development practice. This volume, which pulls together papers from Development in Practice, provides accounts from researchers and practitioners working with women in countries from Africa to the Pacific. The book offers a global perspective, but with the inclusion of local voices, on the way gender can impact daily living in the Global South. This book includes groundbreaking articles by some of development studies’ most well-known scholars, which are interspersed with more recent publications that address urgent issues of gender in development practice. Targeted at development practitioners and academics from across the world, this book reveals the plight of those from the Global South who do not identify as men, and offers examples of how NGOs, targeted programs, enhanced participation in decision-making processes, and the interrogation of established discourse on gender can assist in transforming lives.