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Developing a complexity science capable of solving practical, important, and urgent problems

The process of transforming agriculture in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, especially for policymakers and decisionmakers, highly complex.

Mario Giampietro Mario Giampietro Aloisius Louie Aloisius Louie Richard Sikora Richard Sikora Ansel Renner Ansel Renner

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Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Vol. 1)

Poli, Roberto. 2017. Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Vol. 1). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-3...

Roberto Poli Roberto Poli

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Complexity and the Shift in Modern Science

Science has shifted in the last 120 years from a grounding in the Enlightenment ideas of formalism, determinacy, rationality, and stasis; to a new grounding in organicism, indeterminacy, contingent behavior, and evolutionary openness.

Brian Arthur Brian Arthur
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