complexity
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 5): Aims and overview of the series
The series aims to open up and explore concepts, analogies, and relationships, and put forward working concepts, categories, and hypotheses…
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 4): Introduction
The concepts of complexity science have presented a way of better describing and understanding dynamics and processes of change found…
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Community
Simplistic solutions to complex problems turns behavioural science into a dangerous pseudoscience (part 2): Why it’s pseudoscience
Presenting evidence to show why advancing simplistic solutions in ignorance of complexity and compounding this ignorance through confirmation bias turns…
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KM in international development
Demystifying systemic thinking for evaluation in post-normal times
Using systemic thinking to make sense of new-normal levels of social, political, economic, and ecological complexity.
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 3): Executive summary
The series details each of the 10 concepts of complexity science, using real world examples where possible. It then examine…
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 2): Foreword by Robert Chambers
Complexity science helps to explain complex dynamic phenomena in a widely diverse range of settings.
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 1): Overview
This series of articles uses the science of complexity to outline an alternative approach to analysing and understanding complex and…
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Community
Simplistic solutions to complex problems turns behavioural science into a dangerous pseudoscience (part 1): Confirmation bias and complexity
High-profile Cornell University food researcher Brian Wansink has been found guilty of academic misconduct. How and why did this happen?
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Systems & complexity
Complexity theory course
The aim of this complexity theory course is to bring the often abstract and sophisticated concepts of this subject down…
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Systems & complexity
Optimization and Complexity: The Cost of Complexity [Systems thinking & modelling series]
Wouldn’t a model have to be better if you included all known mechanisms? On the surface this argument is quite…