scholarly journals Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (36) ◽  
pp. e2102798118
Author(s):  
Barbara Cosens ◽  
J. B. Ruhl ◽  
Niko Soininen ◽  
Lance Gunderson ◽  
Antti Belinskij ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Public Science ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legal Structures

The speed and uncertainty of environmental change in the Anthropocene challenge the capacity of coevolving social–ecological–technological systems (SETs) to adapt or transform to these changes. Formal government and legal structures further constrain the adaptive capacity of our SETs. However, new, self-organized forms of adaptive governance are emerging at multiple scales in natural resource-based SETs. Adaptive governance involves the private and public sectors as well as formal and informal institutions, self-organized to fill governance gaps in the traditional roles of states. While new governance forms are emerging, they are not yet doing so rapidly enough to match the pace of environmental change. Furthermore, they do not yet possess the legitimacy or capacity needed to address disparities between the winners and losers from change. These emergent forms of adaptive governance appear to be particularly effective in managing complexity. We explore governance and SETs as coevolving complex systems, focusing on legal systems to understand the potential pathways and obstacles to equitable adaptation. We explore how governments may facilitate the emergence of adaptive governance and promote legitimacy in both the process of governance despite the involvement of nonstate actors, and its adherence to democratic values of equity and justice. To manage the contextual nature of the results of change in complex systems, we propose the establishment of long-term study initiatives for the coproduction of knowledge, to accelerate learning and synergize interactions between science and governance and to foster public science and epistemic communities dedicated to navigating transitions to more just, sustainable, and resilient futures.

Values Underlying Preferences for Adaptive Governance in a Chilean Small-Scale Fishing Community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Ebel ◽  
Christine M. Beitl ◽  
Michael P. Torre
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
A Value ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Value Frames

Environmental change requires individuals and institutions to facilitate adaptive governance. However, facilitating adaptive governance may be difficult because resource users’ perceptions of desirable ways of life vary. These perceptions influence preferences related to environmental governance and may stem from the ways individuals subjectively value their work and their connections to their environment. This paper uses a value-based approach to examine individual and institutional preferences for adaptive governance in Carelmapu, Chile. We show that two groups had different value frames rooted in divergent ontologies which influenced their actions related to adaptive governance, creating conflict.

scholarly journals Cognitive Profiling of Nodes in 6G through Multiplex Social Network and Evolutionary Collective Dynamics

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Marialisa Scatá ◽  
Barbara Attanasio ◽  
Aurelio La Corte
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Mathematical Representation ◽  
Collective Dynamics ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Learning And Cognition ◽  
Application Fields

Complex systems are fully described by the connectedness of their elements studying how these develop a collective behavior, interacting with each other following their inner features, and the structure and dynamics of the entire system. The forthcoming 6G will attempt to rewrite the communication networks’ perspective, focusing on a radical revolution in the way entities and technologies are conceived, integrated and used. This will lead to innovative approaches with the aim of providing new directions to deal with future network challenges posed by the upcoming 6G, thus the complex systems could become an enabling set of tools and methods to design a self-organized, resilient and cognitive network, suitable for many application fields, such as digital health or smart city living scenarios. Here, we propose a complex profiling approach of heterogeneous nodes belonging to the network with the goal of including the multiplex social network as a mathematical representation that enables us to consider multiple types of interactions, the collective dynamics of diffusion and competition, through social contagion and evolutionary game theory, and the mesoscale organization in communities to drive learning and cognition. Through a framework, we detail the step by step modeling approach and show and discuss our findings, applying it to a real dataset, by demonstrating how the proposed model allows us to detect deeply complex knowable roles of nodes.

Complexity and Criticality

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Helmut Satz
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Correlation Length ◽  
Critical Behavior ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Free Behavior

Complex systems and critical behavior in complex system are defined in terms of correlation between constituents in the medium, subject to screening by intermediate constituents. At a critical point, the correlation length diverges—as a result, one finds the scale-free behavior also observed for bird flocks. This behavior is therefore possibly a form of self-organized criticality.

Partnerstwo publiczno-prywatne a porozumienie administracyjne. Efektywna realizacja zadań własnych administracji publicznej w ujęciu porównań systemowych

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 244-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Krajewski
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Hybrid Forms

This publication focuses on defining the legal nature of the constructions of public-private partnership and administrative agreements under different legal systems, with particular emphasis on Polish regulations. Due to complex changes within the concept of public administration, alternative methods of its operation gradually appear. Unification of European legal structures and global socio-economic innovations are an impulse for the analysis of methods that allow adapting to the marketization of public tasks. The aim of the author is to assess the effectiveness of a hybrid forms of public-private partnership and administrative agreement combining the features of private and public law, based on the evaluation of doctrine and jurisprudence. Solutions taken from Polish legal acts on local government and the practice of public institutionsreflect the challenging problem of multilayeredness of obligations undertaken by aforementioned form. Extracting the conclusions from market research and cited government reports allows to formulate postulates de lege ferenda and accurate diagnosis of the activities of modern administration.

Governing Complex Systems

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oran R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Directional Change ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Governing for sustainability in a world of complex systems will require new social capital in the form of innovative steering mechanisms that differ in important respects from those familiar to us from past experience. Complex systems feature high levels of connectivity, nonlinear dynamics, directional change, and emergent properties. Creating effective governance arrangements in such settings calls for an ability to combine the durability required to guide behavior with the agility needed to adjust or reform institutional arrangements to cope with rapidly changing circumstances. Success in such endeavors will depend on a capacity to supplement mainstream regulatory approaches to governance with new governance strategies. Promising examples include governance through goal-setting and principled governance. But additional innovations in this realm will be necessary to address needs for governance arising in the Anthropocene. The way forward in this effort will be to build cooperative relations between analysts and practitioners rather than treating them as separate communities that respond to different incentives and operate in different worlds.

Are emotional expressions intentional?

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond W. Gibbs ◽  
Guy Van Orden
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Situated Action ◽  
Critical States ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Intentional Actions ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Environment Evolution

This paper discusses the debate over whether emotional expressions are spontaneous or intentional actions. We describe a variety of empirical evidence supporting these two possibilities. But we argue that the spontaneous-intentional distinction fails to explain the psychological dynamics of emotional expressions. We claim that a complex systems perspective on intentions, as self-organized critical states, may yield a unified view of emotional expressions as a consequence of situated action. This account simultaneously acknowledges the embodied status of environment, evolution, culture and mind in theories of emotion.

On Networks and Monsters: The Possible and the Actual in Complex Systems

Leonardo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricard Solé
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Emergent Phenomena ◽  
Genome Dynamics ◽  
Natural Description

Complex systems pervade our real world, from social systems to genome dynamics. All these systems are characterized by the presence of emergent phenomena: New properties emerge from the interactions of simpler units and are not reducible to the properties of the latter. The natural description of complex systems involves a network view, where each system is represented by means of a web. Such graphs have been shown to share surprisingly universal patterns of organization, indicating that fundamental laws of organization also pervade complexity at multiple scales.

Theories of Complex Systems and Educational Change at Multiple Scales

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolff-Michael Roth
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Teacher Talk ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Qualitative Models

Theories of complex systems originated in the natural sciences, where it became necessary to move away from describing systems in simple cause–effect models to using descriptions that take into account nonlinearity, emergence, path dependence, the interrelation of continuous (quantitative) and discontinuous (qualitative) transitions, and the interrelation of phenomena at multiple scales. Although some educators have begun to explore the usefulness of complex systems theories for describing educational phenomena at the different levels of scale, the vast majority of educational research continues to be dominated by simple and simplistic (quantitative and qualitative) models. After definition and discussion of different conceptions of systems, this article presents constraint satisfaction networks, chaos theory, and catastrophe theory, as dynamic models for social processes in education. The different models are introduced with easily accessible phenomena from the natural sciences. The models not only are sources of analogies and metaphors for articulating a variety of phenomena in educational systems, including learning and development, conceptual change, decision making, categorization, and curriculum implication, but also can be used for studying real educational systems. Readers find how these models can be used to think about and predict the behavior of systems at scales as small as student–teacher talk to school systems as a whole. The concepts are used to show why educational systems tend to be stable even when policymakers intend change and why some classroom contexts do not provide the conditions for student development despite well-meaning efforts of dedicated teachers.

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