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Complex adaptive system
About: Complex adaptive system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3190 publications have been published within this topic receiving 111947 citations. The topic is also known as: Complex adaptive system, CAS.
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TL;DR: The credentials of the evidence-based policy movement appear to be increasingly subject to challenge based on research that has highlighted the limits on the use of evidence in policy making, and moves towards a more realistic position of evidence-informed policy making risk conflating prescription with description and undermining a normative vision of better policy making as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The credentials of the evidence-based policy movement appear to be increasingly subject to challenge based on research that has highlighted the limits on the use of evidence in policy making However, moves towards a more ‘realistic’ position of evidence-informed policy making risk conflating prescription with description and undermining a normative vision of better policy making This article argues that we need to review the ideas that underpin our thinking about evidence-based policy making, and move beyond the territory of instrumental rationality to a position founded upon two intellectual pillars: our developing knowledge about complex adaptive systems; and ideas from a pragmatist philosophical position – especially those of John Dewey – about social scientific knowledge and its role in guiding action to address social problems This leads us to a conception of ‘intelligent policy making’ in which the notion of policy learning is central
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TL;DR: The techniques and tools of complexity science offer a powerful means of understanding the complex decision-making processes that are needed to realise a low-carbon energy system.
237 citations
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The diffusion of innovations model (DIM) and complex adaptive systems theory (CAS) can be employed together in the construction of predictive or applied hybrid models of induced change in population behavior.
Abstract: The diffusion of innovations model (DIM) and complex adaptive systems theory (CAS) can be employed together in the construction of predictive or applied hybrid models of induced change in population behavior. In such interventions, differentiated heterogeneous zones may act as catalysts for the adoption of innovation. The present study explores the actual and potential hybridization of these two systems theories, relying on illustrations from historical practical applications of DIM, particularly the STOP AIDS communication campaign in San Francisco. The resulting co-theoretical model provides an analytical tool for students of innovation, particularly in the public sector, and especially in applications of network analysis predicated on a crucially defining feature of social networks, namely “the strength of weak ties” among their members. In cultivating network ties among heterogeneous groups connected by common aims, it is here argued, the innovator may prompt and, to an extent, guide the complex emergence of innovation adoption in social systems. Commonalities in the concept of heterogeneity in CAS and in DIM is explored in depth, along its many dimensions, including membership and role heterogeneity, with a view to preliminary operationalization of diffusion-management principles.
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TL;DR: Preise et al. as mentioned in this paper described social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems as organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches, and proposed an organizing principle for the development of social ecology as a complex adaptive system.
Abstract: CITATION: Preise, R., et al. 2018. Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems : organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches. Ecology and Society, 23(4):46, doi:10.5751/ES-10558-230446.
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TL;DR: It is proposed that explicit consideration of the following concepts from CAS should make the design of IBMs less ad hoc and more likely to produce models of value for basic and applied ecology.
226 citations