This book is dedicated to the consolidation and to the expansion of theoretic systems thinking as a necessary integration of the general reductionist and analytical attitude dominant in our culture. Reductionism and analytical approaches have produced significant results in many fields of...

This book addresses the social and environmental justice challenge to live sustainably and well. It considers the consequences of our social, economic and environmental policy and governance decisions for this generation and the next. The book tests out ways to improve representation,...

This book uses systemic thinking and applies it to the study of financial crises. It systematically presents how the systemic yoyo model, its thinking logic, and its methodology can be employed as a common playground and intuition to the study of money, international finance, and economic...

Chapter 1. The Background of Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics -- Part. I -- Chapter 2. Perspective new conceptual categories -- Chapter 3. Dynamics -- Chapter 4. From collective beings to quasi-systems -- Chapter 5. New formalisation? -- Chapter 6. Theoretical systemics and quantum field theory --...

This study adopts the logic of Systems Thinking and Control Systems, presenting a simple but complete theory called the Theory of Combinatory Systems. This new theory is able to describe, interpret, explain, simulate and control collective phenomena and their observable effects. Despite specific...

This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of closing the wide gap in living standards between rich...

Quantum Effects in Linguistic Endeavors -- Cross-Frequency Modulation, Network Information Integration and Cognitive Performance in Complex Systems -- Testing Different Learning Strategies on a Simple Connectionist Model of Numerical Fact Retrieval -- Dynamical Systems and Automata -- Towards...

Introduction and Overview -- Vulnerability and risk: Towards stewardship of a post carbon economy -- Facing up to fin de siecle culture -- New Regionalist monitory democracy and governance: A reply to the so-called problem of cosmopolitan politics -- Greed and Complicity: Responsibility to...