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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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Complexity, Difference and Identity— an ethical perspective

Paul Cilliers and Rika Preiser (editors). 2010. Complexity, Difference and Identity— an ethical perspective. Heidelberg, New York, London: S...

Wolfgang Preiser Wolfgang Preiser

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Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third

Paul Cilliers and Basarab Nicolescu. 2012. Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third. Futur...

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Pushing Limits by Embracing Complexity

Wolkenhauer, Olaf. 2014. Pushing Limits by Embracing Complexity. IET Systems Biology 8 (6): 244–50. doi:10.1049/iet-syb.2014.0031.

Placeholder image Olaf Wolkenhauer

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System Change Africa: Evolution not revolution

Finding an African way of dealing with African urbanism: Complexity theory and systems thinking show how governments and people can work together to achieve something that neither could ever achieve alone.

Kelvin Campbell Kelvin Campbell
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