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This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of transforming people's attitude toward the planet's resources through a redesign of living standards and governance controls to enable humanity to emerge from an unsustainable way of life.

The role of, and the means to achieve, resilience (the capacity to be sustainable through the impact of multitudinous future changes in a connected, dynamic environment) are increasingly the focus of corporate strategy departments and government think tanks. The increasing volatility in economic markets, the natural environment and society generally require new tools to think about, and take meaningful action towards, the achievement and maint...

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Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations disp...

Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations disp...

This volume is a compilation of papers presented from the ANZSYS/ISCE collaboration that resulted in the International 11th ANZSYS/Managing the Complex V conference that was held December 5-7, 2005, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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The recent discovery of an archive full of personal documents of the philosopher and biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, founder of the General System Theory, paved the way for a reconsideration of important elements concerning his life and thought. This updated biography of a thinker, who is equally often cited as misjudged, takes into consideration all of his publications, his correspondence, as well as the secondary sources devoted to him, an...

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The ANZSYS conference was an opportunity for practitioners from broad ranging traditions to share their experiences regarding integrative and innovative approaches that can make a difference to communities and natural environments.

This volume examines the impact of complexity theory on various disciplines, especially the area of philosophy. (Philosophy)

Written by leading experts in the field, this volume seeks to provide new insights and tools that have only recently become apparent through advances in complexity science.

In "The Boids and the Bees" living systems are seen as complex, adaptive systems, which leads to a perceptual revolution in which health care systems are focused on prevention and health rather than illness and profits.

Currently the globally-connected world creates complexity for local decision makers. Environmental, social, organizational, and informational problems are pluralistic and messy. Systems approaches are required to reduce conflict and confusion. A key challenge is to apply holistic systems concepts to improve the lives of those served by systems of all kinds. This challenge motivated the theme for 2007's ANZSYS conference-'Systemic development: ...

Over recent years the field of organization studies has exhibited an increasing interest in the aesthetic dimension of work and its organization. The chapters in this volume owe their origins to a conference held at the University of Manchester in July 2001. This conference, The Second International Critical Management Studies Conference, contained a stream on art and aesthetics which was convened by the editors of this volume. The chapters th...

Vesterby discusses ways emergence, self-organization, and cause come into existence. Understanding development, emergence, self-organization, and cause provides the opportunity to become a modern generalist.

The authors of this volume explore such topics as whether complexity theory offers a new science or is merely a novel analytical tool kit and if the theory suggests a new way of knowing and solving complex public policy problems.

Emergence, complexity, and self-organization have become vital focuses of interest not only in the fields of science and philosophy but also in the wider worlds of business and politics. This volume presents a series of essays by thinkers who anticipated the significance of those issues. (Philosophy)