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A Climate Policy Revolution

What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving Our Planet

By: Roland Kupers

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A Climate Policy Revolution

What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving Our Planet

By: Roland Kupers

Humanity’s best hope for confronting the looming climate crisis rests with the new science of complexity. The sheer complexity of climate change stops most solutions in their tracks. How do we give up fossil fuels when energy is connected to everything, from great-power contests to the value of your pension? Global economic growth depends on consumption, but that also produces the garbage now choking the oceans. To give up cars, coal, or meat would upend industries and entire ways of life. Faced with seemingly impossible tradeoffs, politicians dither and economists offer solutions at the margins, all while we flirt with the sixth extinction. That’s why humanity’s last best hope is the young science of complex systems. Quitting coal, making autonomous cars ubiquitous, ending the middle-class addiction to consumption: all necessary to head off climate catastrophe, all deemed fantasies by pundits and policymakers, and all plausible in a complex systems view. Roland Kupers shows how we have already broken the interwoven path dependencies that make fundamental change so daunting. Consider the mid-2000s, when, against all predictions, the United States rapidly switched from a reliance on coal primarily to natural gas. The change required targeted regulations, a few lone investors, independent researchers, and generous technology subsidies. But in a stunningly short period of time, shale oil nudged out coal, and carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 10 percent. Kupers shows how to replicate such patterns in order to improve transit, reduce plastics consumption, and temper the environmental impact of middle-class diets. Whether dissecting China’s Ecological Civilization or the United States’ Green New Deal, Kupers describes what’s folly, what’s possible, and which solutions just might work.

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Harvard University Press

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0674246799

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Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

By: David Colander,Roland Kupers

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Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

By: David Colander,Roland Kupers

How ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policy Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are useful in some cases, they are damaging in others, directing thinking away from creative, innovative policy solutions. Complexity and the Art of Public Policy outlines a new, more flexible policy narrative, which envisions society as a complex evolving system that is uncontrollable but can be influenced. David Colander and Roland Kupers describe how economists and society became locked into the current policy framework, and lay out fresh alternatives for framing policy questions. Offering original solutions to stubborn problems, the complexity narrative builds on broader philosophical traditions, such as those in the work of John Stuart Mill, to suggest initiatives that the authors call "activist laissez-faire" policies. Colander and Kupers develop innovative bottom-up solutions that, through new institutional structures such as for-benefit corporations, channel individuals’ social instincts into solving societal problems, making profits a tool for change rather than a goal. They argue that a central role for government in this complexity framework is to foster an ecostructure within which diverse forms of social entrepreneurship can emerge and blossom.

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Princeton University Press

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0691169136

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A Climate Policy Revolution

What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving Our Planet

By: Roland Kupers

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What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving Our Planet

By: Roland Kupers

In this book, Roland Kupers argues that the climate crisis is well suited to the bottom-up, rapid, and revolutionary change complexity science theorizes; he succinctly makes the case that complexity science promises policy solutions to address climate change"--

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Project Management at the Edge of Chaos

Social Techniques for Complex Systems

By: Alfred Oswald,Jens Köhler,Roland Schmitt

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Project Management at the Edge of Chaos

Social Techniques for Complex Systems

By: Alfred Oswald,Jens Köhler,Roland Schmitt

Complexity is a gift that can be made available for the successful implementation of projects, and used to create a new order or to change an existing one. Based on scientific facts, the authors present a systematic approach, which integrates complexity and its multitude of facets and gives practical recommendations for dealing with complexity in projects. The methods paradigm in project management is currently undergoing a massive upheaval. Projects are complex entities that cannot be tackled using traditional methods, such as classical cause and effect approaches. Complexity, and the associated phenomenon of self-organization, is a natural, but hidden designer. It offers a great opportunity in its use as a key driver for the implementation of projects. This requires identification of the principles of complexity and then using these for project management. In this book, the latest findings from natural sciences and brain research are used and transferred within a practice-oriented framework. The authors describe the methods of complexity regulation in projects and how self-organization for the management of projects can be applied.

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Springer

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3662482614

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In the Realms of Gold

Pioneering in African History

By: Roland Oliver

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In the Realms of Gold

Pioneering in African History

By: Roland Oliver

The core of the book is Oliver's account of his research travels throughout tropical Africa from the 1940s to the 1980s; his efforts to train and foster African graduate students to teach in African universities; his role in establishing conferences and journals to bring together the work of historians and archaeologists from Europe and Africa; his encounters with political and religious leaders, scholars, soldiers, and storytellers; and the political and economic upheavals of the continent that he witnessed.

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Routledge

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113457178X

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Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

By: David Colander,Roland Kupers

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Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

By: David Colander,Roland Kupers

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Princeton University Press

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Book's by Roland Kupers

A Climate Policy Revolution

A Climate Policy Revolution

Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

A Climate Policy Revolution

A Climate Policy Revolution

Project Management at the Edge of Chaos

Project Management at the Edge of Chaos

In the Realms of Gold

In the Realms of Gold

Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

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