Complexity Theory: Societies as Complex Systems

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This chapter offers an alternative approach to systems drawing on complexity, emergence, and critical realism. It suggests that social-ecological systems are inherently dynamic, metabolic entities engaged in a continual exchange of matter and energy with their...

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Flaherty, E. (2019). Complexity Theory: Societies as Complex Systems. In Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences (pp. 29–76). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54978-5_2

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