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Groundbreaking book on methods to study social-ecological systems – Stockholm Resilience Centre

Groundbreaking book on methods to study social-ecological systems

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Open-access book covers 28 broad groups of methods, featuring contributions from almost a hundred authors in 16 countries

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• For the first time, the wide range of approaches being used in social-ecological research is presented in one handbook
• The book is edited by centre researchers Reinette Biggs and Maja Schlüter within a team of six editors from Stellenbosch University, SRC and Rhodes university
• It features a large number of centre researchers as chapter authors, as well as many SRC collaborators around the world

For the first time, the wide range of approaches that are currently being used in social-ecological research is presented in one handbook.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems is out, and many centre researchers and collaborators have contributed to it.

The book is edited by centre researchers Reinette Biggs (also at Stellenbosch University) and Maja Schlüter together with Alta de Vos, Rika Preiser, Hayley Clements and Kristine Maciejewski from Stellenbosch and Rhodes Universities.

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Groundbreaking book on methods to study social-ecological systems – Stockholm Resilience Centre

Presidents Series #9 Polis 4 0 and Quality 4 0 1 view20 Jul 2021 0 0 SHARE SAVE Cybernetics Society 132 subscribers SUBSCRIBED The 9th in the Presidents Series of events featured Richard Berry, a mature Doctoral student Loughborough University exploring the future of policing. Subsequently, Professor John Oakland introduced Quality 4.0 – a research project undertaken on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute which considers the responses required from the quality profession to address the needs of organisations in the light of the data explosion

Presidents Series #9 Polis 4 0 and Quality 4 0 – YouTube

The Systems Movement: Engaging Communities with Traditions and Diversity, Gary S. Metcalf (ST-ON 2021-01-11) – Coevolving Innovations

To appreciate how systemicists worldwide collaborate, Gary S. Metcalf joined Systems Thinking Ontario for a conversation.  Gary served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2007-2008, and of the International Federation for Sysrtems Research 2010-2016.  From 2003 to 2018, he was a graduate instructor in Organizational Systems and Research on the faculty of Saybrook University.

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The Systems Movement: Engaging Communities with Traditions and Diversity, Gary S. Metcalf (ST-ON 2021-01-11) – Coevolving Innovations

Earth’s Complexity Is Non-Computable: The Limits of Scaling Laws, Nonlinearity and Chaos

Entropy | Free Full-Text | Earth’s Complexity Is Non-Computable: The Limits of Scaling Laws, Nonlinearity and Chaos | HTML

Share by Michael Garfield in the Complexity Explorer group on Facebook – a recommended join:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2156854757698450

AbstractCurrent physics commonly qualifies the Earth system as ‘complex’ because it includes numerous different processes operating over a large range of spatial scales, often modelled as exhibiting non-linear chaotic response dynamics and power scaling laws. This characterization is based on the fundamental assumption that the Earth’s complexity could, in principle, be modeled by (surrogated by) a numerical algorithm if enough computing power were granted. Yet, similar numerical algorithms also surrogate different systems having the same processes and dynamics, such as Mars or Jupiter, although being qualitatively different from the Earth system. Here, I argue that understanding the Earth as a complex system requires a consideration of the Gaia hypothesis: the Earth is a complex system because it instantiates life—and therefore an autopoietic, metabolic-repair (M,R) organization—at a planetary scale. This implies that the Earth’s complexity has formal equivalence to a self-referential system that inherently is non-algorithmic and, therefore, cannot be surrogated and simulated in a Turing machine. I discuss the consequences of this, with reference to in-silico climate models, tipping points, planetary boundaries, and planetary feedback loops as units of adaptive evolution and selection.

Feedback: What connects and separates Jimi Hendrix and cybernetics?

Cybernetics Society – A science for life.

New and really nice Cybernetics Society website.

(This is the UK-based CybSoc, not to be confused with the American Cybernetics Society – though they work together closely)

System redesign toward creating shared value July 20, 2021 By Moein Khazaei, Mohammad Ramezani, Amin Padash and Dorien DeTombe

System redesign toward creating shared value – Integration and Implementation Insights

Feedback / Stafford Beer

Feedback / Stafford Beer – YouTube

Radical Uncertainty: Design beyond solutionism – Webinar

Radical Uncertainty: Design beyond solutionism – Webinar Tickets, Fri 23 Jul 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

JUL 23

Radical Uncertainty: Design beyond solutionism – Webinar

by The Radical Methodologies Research and Enterprise Group (RaMREG)

Radical Uncertainty: Design beyond solutionism webinar. University of Brighton Radical Methodologies Research and Enterprise Group. RaMREG

About this event

The University of Brighton Radical Methodologies Research and Enterprise Group (RaMREG) and the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing (CAW) are delighted to invite you to Radical Uncertainty: Design beyond solutionism. This event will explore situations characterised by changeability, conflicting values and uncertain boundaries. Please see the outline below.

We are excited that we will be joined by guest speakers Mihir Bhat, Shilpi Srivastava, Zoe Sadokierski, Chris Rose, and Claudia Westermann. These speakers have been invited as their work and ideas have influenced our framing of the event. Each guest will present personal reflections informed by their work in response to the ideas and questions outlined below. We invite you to participate in the conversations and questions that emerge.

Radical Uncertainty: Design beyond solutionism

The term ‘radical uncertainty’ can be characterised by extreme complexity, instability or disagreement about what is considered known or knowable. As such, the event will discuss diverse conceptions of uncertainty and seek to identify modes of working that embrace rather than eliminate complexity.

The event seeks to identify and discuss situations characterised by changeability, conflicting values and uncertain boundaries. These include embodied, emotional, and tacit ways of knowing and representing the world (Mehta, Lyla, and Shilpi Srivastava, 2020) and ideas of responsibility, accountability and ethics.

Design is situated within the rich, shifting, complex and relational systemic situations as both discipline and practice. We, therefore, seek strategies that enable us to ‘stay with’ the unknown and the unknowable without becoming bound by cyclical exercises in rhetoric.

How can we embrace practices and deliver strategies that better engage with global challenges characterised by their radical uncertainty?

For further information about RaMREG and our members please see this link

Linking to https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/05/23/polycentricity-gerhard-guenther-and-more/ and the way in which everyone, these days, is seeking polycentric organisations (to some degree, and whether they know it or not)

Co-Production, Polycentricity and Value Heterogeneity: The Ostroms’ Public Choice Institutionalism Revisited – Tarko and Aligicia (2013)

https://www.academia.edu/5648350/Co_Production_Polycentricity_and_Value_Heterogeneity_The_Ostroms_Public_Choice_Institutionalism_Revisited?email_work_card=view-paper

An Introduction to Polycentricity and Governance – Mark Stephan, Graham Marshall, and Michael McGinnis (2019)

Principle seven of GRAID at Stockholm Resilience Centre – promote polycentric governance

Friston’s Free Energy Principle Explained (part 1)

Friston’s Free Energy Principle Explained (part 1) | jared tumiel

Absorptive capacity

Absorptive capacity – Wikipedia

Absorptive capacity

In business administration, absorptive capacity has been defined as “a firm’s ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends”. It is studied on individual, group, firm, and national levels. Antecedents are prior-based knowledge (knowledge stocks and knowledge flows) and communication. Studies involve a firm’s innovation performance, aspiration level, and organizational learning. It has been said that in order to be innovative an organization should develop its absorptive capacity.