Future landscapes: managing within complexity

L Parrott, WS Meyer - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A regional landscape is a complex social–ecological system comprising a dynamic mosaic
of land uses. Management at this scale requires an understanding of the myriad interacting …

Complexity and biocomplexity: Overview of some historical aspects and philosophical basis

S Kesić - Ecological Complexity, 2024 - Elsevier
Complexity has radically changed human understanding of the world environment and
continues challenging our best scientific theories. In a rapidly changing research landscape …

[图书][B] Economics and evolution: bringing life back into economics

GM Hodgson - 1996 - books.google.com
Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists
are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many …

Project complexity: The focal point of construction production planning

KI Gidado - Construction Management & Economics, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Construction production planning is a paramount preoccupation of contractors and the
process is rapidly increasing in difficulty with a continuous loss in confidence by clients …

Planning for sustainability as a learning concept

T Meppem, R Gill - Ecological economics, 1998 - Elsevier
The major theme of the following discussion is the importance of a transdisciplinary
approach to guide sustainability-related planning and management activities. The proposed …

Policy research in sub‐Saharan Africa: An exploration

C Juma, N Clark - Public Administration and Development, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
This article argues that a major problem with contemporary policy analysis is that it has
difficulty coming to terms with complex economic change. This in turn is probably influenced …

Evolutionary dynamics and sustainable development: a systems approach

N Clark, F Perez-Trejo, P Allen - Evolutionary Dynamics and …, 1995 - elgaronline.com
In Evolutionary Dynamics and Sustainable Development, Norman Clark, Francisco Perez-
Trejo and Peter Allen offer a new approach which emphasizes the evolutionary nature of …

[图书][B] Entrepreneurship

T Grebel - 2004 - library.oapen.org
The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing.
Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network …

Empiricism in ecological economics: a perspective from complex systems theory

J Ramos-Martin - Ecological Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
Economies are open complex adaptive systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium, and
neo-classical environmental economics seems not to be the best way to describe the …

Research as capacity building: the case of an NGO facilitated post-harvest innovation system for the Himalayan hills

N Clark, A Hall, R Sulaiman, G Naik - World development, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper reviews a recent donor-funded project concerning the introduction of post-
harvest technology to poor hill farmers in India. Rather than conform to conventional …