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Coping with uncertainty : insights from the new sciences of chaos, self-organization, and complexity
- Title
- Coping with uncertainty : insights from the new sciences of chaos, self-organization, and complexity / Uri Merry ; illustrations by Natali Kassavin.
- Author
- Merry, Uri.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 209 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems
- Uncertainty > Social aspects
- Complexity (Philosophy)
- Social change
- Chaotic behavior in systems
- Chaostheorie
- Komplexität
- Komplexitätstheorie
- Selbst organisierendes System
- Sozialer Wandel
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie
- Ungewissheit
- Ciencias humanas e sociais
- Risk > Sociological aspects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. What Is Chaos? -- Ch. 2. Order and Science -- Ch. 3. The New Science of Chaos -- Ch. 4. The Science of Self-Organization -- Ch. 5. The Science of Complexity -- Ch. 6. The Complexity Spiral -- Ch. 7. The Technological Catalyst -- Ch. 8. The Shifting Eras -- Ch. 9. The Adaptation Crisis -- Ch. 10. Living with Uncertainty -- Ch. 11. Transforming Ourselves -- Ch. 12. The Coming Era -- Ch. 13. The Self-Organizing Universe -- Ch. 14. Human Agency in Evolution
- ISBN
- 0275949109
- 9780275949105
- 0275951529
- 9780275951528
- LCCN
- 94016996
- OCLC
- ocm30476976
- 30476976
- SCSB-9064305
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library