Complexity theory has captured the attention of the scientific community to the extent where
its proponents tout it as a dominant scientific trend. Geographers, and environmental …

▪ Abstract This review asks the question: What new avenues of social science enquiry are
suggested by new ecological thinking, with its focus on nonequilibrium dynamics, spatial …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted as reference and universal
guidepost for transitioning to Sustainable Development by the United Nations in 2015 as …

This paper explores the implications of the widespread success of the term circular economy
in the institutional and public debate. The concept of circular economy in itself implies a …

Recent natural and man‐made catastrophes, such as the Fukushima nuclear power plant,
flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Haiti earthquake …

Win–win solutions that both conserve biodiversity and promote human well-being are
difficult to realize. Trade-offs and the hard choices they entail are the norm. Since 2008, the …

The present crisis of science's governance, affecting science's reproducibility, scientific peer
review and science's integrity, offers a chance to reconsider evidence based policy as it is …

This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the
evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies …

This article contrasts the assumptions of General Systems Theory, the framework for much
prior leadership research, with those of Complexity Theory, to further develop the latter's …

The ideas of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity have been widely applied to the
relationship between sciences. This article is an attempt to discuss the reasons why …