Kelly Chapman

Complexity and Creative Capacity (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking knowledge transfer, adaptive management and wicked environmental problems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses complexity theory to show how our traditional approaches to generating and applying knowledge may be paradoxically exacerbating some of the 'wicked' environmental problems we are currently facing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317398134
• Artikelnr.: 44170162

Autorenporträt

Kelly Chapman is a consultant environmental scientist, based in Calgary, Canada. She has a PhD from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and more than twenty years of practical experience in environmental management and planning, environmental communications, and biophysical projects in Africa, Australia and Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Unearthing Assumptions: The Co-evolution of Western
Science and Philosophy 3. Unravelling Paradox: Mathematical Logic and
Orders of Change 4. Filling the 'Hole': Non-linearity, Chaos and Complex
Self-organising Systems 5. Complexity and Creative Capacity: From a
Newtonian to a Complexity Reality 6. Through the Complexity Lens:
Cognition, Learning and Organising 7. Implications: Rethinking Science,
Knowledge Transfer and Adaptive Management