Historically, citizen panels were used to inform policymaking. Recently, they have evolved to broader societal roles. A citizen’s panel assembles non-experts to give a considered opinion or recommendation without professional or political bias. It’s about finding out what ordinary, naive...

The crucial relationship between education, citizenship and democracy should no longer be considered a hypothesis, nor should the risk of reducing democracy to purely legal norms and of giving carte blanche to technology in the field of education be underestimated. The tendency of governments to...

The purpose of this chapter is to propose a systemic framework for dealing with global warming effectively. Our research question is: ‘How can society bring about a holistic approach to mastering the complexity of global warming it is confronted with?’ The dominant approaches to coping with...

This presentation was delivered as a keynote at the Congress of World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) 2024. It draws on a study to improve the governance of River Basin Organisations (RBOs). For this purpose, a diagnosis of the quality of management structures and processes and an...

The rise of global temperature, the reasoning of the International Panel for Climate Change, and the political calls for carbon neutrality urge society and its players for immediate action. Short-term thinking and its advocation need to be altered. One way out is the circular economy as it...

The tourism industry, as a complex system, plays a significant role in economic growth and sustainable development. This study adopts a system dynamics (SD) approach to investigate the intricate interconnections within smart tourism ecosystems, focussing on how these interactions contribute to...

The tourism industry encounters significant demands to reconcile economic growth with environmental and social sustainability. However, many governance approaches focus on economic development, overlooking environmental and social dimensions. This chapter investigates the potential of systems...

To achieve sustainability objectives, the three subsystems of the environmental, social, and economic pillars must attain equifinality. However, in numerous instances, these subsystems fail to strike a balance, resulting in failure to realise sustainable outcomes. Therefore, transitioning to a...

The current fluctuations in the economy have a great impact on the business models, strategies and partnerships, which calls for changes from the conventional approaches to the sharing economy (SE), for instance, to facilitate risk sharing and to increase efficiencies. The role of digital...

In recent years, the rise and proliferation of online commerce platforms have significantly transformed the traditional concept of selling, redefining the dynamics between customers and sellers. Consequently, consumer behaviour has evolved, adapting to the new paradigms introduced by this shift....