“Almost every problem confronting our society is a result of the fact that our public-policy makers are doing the wrong things and are trying to do them righter.” The notion of resilience has been ...

Liu, Jucun; Tong, Tony W.; Sinfield, Joseph V. Toward a resilient complex adaptive system view of business models. Long Range Planning. Jun2021, Vol. 54 Issue 3, pN.PAG-N.PAG. This paper employs the ...

Complex Adaptive Systems By John Holland Complex adaptive systems are comprised of individual components, each with their own function: neurons conveying action potential for movement, antibodies ...

What are “complex systems” in this context? These are noncomputer systems, such as a company’s supply chain. A system is “complex” when it has so many variables and interacting forces that it can’t be ...

I was a second-year medical school student when I encountered my first patient with GRID — gay-related immune deficiency. The year was 1982, and the disease that would soon be called AIDS was an ...

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Achieving sustainability requires a sophisticated understanding of continuously evolving resource, production, and consumption systems that make up society's relationship to nature. In a special new ...

Global modeling has been used for decades to assess the possible futures of humanity and the global environment. However, these models do not always satisfactorily include the adaptive characteristics ...

Have you ever seen a starling murmuration? This video captures a beautiful one, where “hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns through the sky.” ...