Networks and the challenge of sustainable development

AD Henry, B Vollan - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Network concepts are central to at least three challenges of interest in the sustainability
science literature: how to link knowledge with action, how to enhance collective action, and …

What is a complex system?

J Ladyman, J Lambert, K Wiesner - European Journal for Philosophy of …, 2013 - Springer
Complex systems research is becoming ever more important in both the natural and social
sciences. It is commonly implied that there is such a thing as a complex system, different …

Bringing values and deliberation to science communication

T Dietz - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication
focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be …

Agent-based modeling of energy technology adoption: Empirical integration of social, behavioral, economic, and environmental factors

V Rai, SA Robinson - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Agent-based modeling (ABM) techniques for studying human-technical systems face two
important challenges. First, agent behavioral rules are often ad hoc, making it difficult to …

[HTML][HTML] Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers

K Sasahara, W Chen, H Peng, GL Ciampaglia… - … of Computational Social …, 2021 - Springer
While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they
also facilitate basic influence and unfriending mechanisms that may lead to segregated and …

Cooperative and competitive spreading dynamics on the human connectome

B Mišić, RF Betzel, A Nematzadeh, J Goni, A Griffa… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Increasingly detailed data on the network topology of neural circuits create a need for
theoretical principles that explain how these networks shape neural communication. Here …

A biased review of sociophysics

D Stauffer - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2013 - Springer
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Ideology, power, and the structure of policy networks

AD Henry - Policy Studies Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the role of power and ideology in the endogenous formation of
policy networks. According to the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), shared ideology …

[BOOK][B] Sociophysics: an introduction

P Sen, BK Chakrabarti - 2014 - books.google.com
This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and
models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible …

A natural experiment of social network formation and dynamics

TQ Phan, EM Airoldi - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Social networks affect many aspects of life, including the spread of diseases, the diffusion of
information, the workers' productivity, and consumers' behavior. Little is known, however …