... Development as a global educational programme advanced by the United Nations. The chapter then demonstrates how teaching about ecological challenges can impart new knowledge about alternative ecological understandings, such as the Latin American concept of Buen Vivir and complex systems thinking, both...

...This chapter first looks at the information age and its networking mindset. It then examines three tenets from the study of complex systems: structure, synchrony, and stability. It describes the concept of ‘improvising society’, which refers to new social forms of processing alignment and fine...

... to and report on complex systems of government? How do the various governance actors respond to the media and what are the effects on their policies? This book considers the impact of media-related factors on governance, policy, public accountability and the attribution of blame for failures....

... as they are applied to the model. It identifies the limitations of linear and equilibric models in relation to social processes; reviews the implications of modeling non-linear developments in open complex systems; discusses the potential and limitations of simulations as predictive models...

... to and report on complex systems of government? How do the various governance actors respond to the media and what are the effects on their policies? This book considers the impact of media-related factors on governance, policy, public accountability and the attribution of blame for failures. media sector...

... explores some of the strategies that development workers deploy to cope with the demands of the job. It also problematises prevailing positivistic models of evidence, effectiveness and success, arguing for a ‘complex systems psychodynamic’ approach that recognizes the centrality of ‘emotion work...

... economy heavily influenced by neoliberalism. The political economy requires a ‘phase shift’ to recalibrate complex systems in order to make them more tractable to social policy objectives. The chapter concludes through suggesting a range of measures of the type required to achieve a phase shift in society...