Introduction. Saving 'self-destruction' from itself at the times of COVID and war / Kirill Postoutenko -- Some thoughts on systems and their self-destruction / Wolfgang Banzhaf -- Studying communicative mechanisms of self-destruction in complex systems : structures, modes, and self-reinforcing...

"Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. It shows how this complexity impacts every aspect of life for individuals, governments and societies in most social systems at individual, regional, national and global scales and...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Methodology: towards a representation of complex system dynamics -- chapter 2 The method: introducing Dynamic Pattern Synthesis -- chapter 3 Macro examples of Dynamic Pattern Synthesis -- chapter 4 A meso case study example: London boroughs -- chapter 5 Micro...