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Emergent Nested Systems - A Theory of Understanding and Influencing Complex Systems as well as Case Studies in Urban Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Emergent Nested Systems - A Theory of Understanding and Influencing Complex Systems as well as Case Studies in Urban Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Understanding Complex Systems
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This book presents a theory as well as methods to understand and to
purposively influence complex systems. It suggests a theory of
complex systems as nested systems, i. e. systems that enclose other
systems and that are simultaneously enclosed by even other systems.
According to the theory presented, each enclosing system emerges
through time from the generative activities of the systems they
enclose. Systems are nested and often emerge unplanned, and every
system of high dynamics is enclosed by a system of slower dynamics.
An understanding of systems with faster dynamics, which are always
guided by systems of slower dynamics, opens up not only new ways to
understanding systems, but also to effectively influence them. The
aim and subject of this book is to lay out these thoughts and
explain their relevance to the purposive development of complex
systems, which are exemplified in case studies from an urban
system. The interested reader, who is not required to be familiar
with system-theoretical concepts or with theories of emergence,
will be guided through the development of a theory of emergent
nested systems. The reader will also learn about new ways to
influence the course of events - even though the course of events
is, in principle, unpredictable, due to the ever-new emergence of
real novelty.
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