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Complexity and Creative Capacity - Rethinking knowledge transfer, adaptive management and wicked environmental problems (Hardcover)
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Complexity and Creative Capacity - Rethinking knowledge transfer, adaptive management and wicked environmental problems (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on
self-organising and complex adaptive systems. Since then,
complexity theory has become one of the fastest growing topics in
both the natural and social sciences, and touted as a revolutionary
way of understanding the behaviour of complex systems. This book
uses complexity theory to surface and challenge the deeply held
cultural assumptions that shape how we think about reality and
knowledge. In doing so it shows how our traditional approaches to
generating and applying knowledge may be paradoxically exacerbating
some of the 'wicked' environmental problems we are currently
facing. The author proposes an innovative and compelling argument
for rejecting old constructs of knowledge transfer, adaptive
management and adaptive capacity. The book also presents a
distinctively coherent and comprehensive synthesis of cognition,
learning, knowledge and organizing from a complexity perspective.
It concludes with a reconceptualization of the problem of knowledge
transfer from a complexity perspective, proposing the concept of
creative capacity as an alternative to adaptive capacity as a
measure of resilience in socio-ecological systems. Although written
from an environmental management perspective, it is relevant to the
broader natural sciences and to a range of other disciplines,
including knowledge management, organizational learning,
organizational management, and the philosophy of science.
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