Adaptive governance, institutional evolution, and decision-making
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies • 2020
The insights from this paper suggest that social systems are empirically complex, and that our ability to fully understand complex systems is thus inherently limited. Peacebuilding itself also needs to be understood as complex processes that emerge from the interactions of multiple actors and factors, and that are therefore self-organized and emergent. This has implications for how assessments, planning, coordination, leadership, and evaluating specific peacebuilding interventions are undertaken.
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University of Exeter • 2023
Pete Barbrook-Johnson and his team make a major effort in this report to demonstrate the value of new economic modelling to policy questions relevant to the low-carbon transition. According to the report, a new generation of economic models rooted in complexity science is needed to inform successful policymaking on the energy transition.
Princeton University Press • 2014
The authors first introduce the complexity frame and describe how social policy would be different if it were to be taken seriously. Then they survey the history of the relationship among economics, policy, and complexity, explaining how they parted company and how they are once again coming together. Next, they explore some complexity policies and describe examples of how the complexity frame might change the policy debate. The Lost Agenda part discusses how social science training should change to better integrate a complexity vision into policy thinking, and how policy thinking will change if the complexity frame is adopted.
