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  • Complexity, Difference and Identity

    An Ethical Perspective

    Edited by Paul Cilliers, Rika Preiser ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    "Complexity" has been part of the academic discourse for a decade or two. Texts on Complexity fall mainly in two categories: fairly technical and mathematical on the one hand, and fairly broad, vague and general on the other. Paul Cilliers’ book Complexity and Postmodernism. Understanding Complex Systems (Routledge 1998) constituted an attempt to bridge this divide by reflecting more rigorously on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems

    Edited by Reinette Biggs, Alta de Vos, Rika Preiser, Hayley Clements, Kristine Maciejewski, Maja Schlüter ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research.The book is primarily targeted at graduate students, lecturers and researchers working on SES, and has been written in a style that is accessible to readers entering the field from a variety of different ... Read more

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    Inquiry, Strategy, Design

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  • Working Together

    Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

    by Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy Poteete ...
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  • Risk Governance

    Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World

    by Ortwin Renn ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    �Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. The skill with which he builds practical recommendations from solid ... Read more

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  • Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by François Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles ...
    At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge and exploring some of the challenges and limits of evidence in different ... Read more

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  • Citizen Science

    Public Participation in Environmental Research

    by John W. Fitzpatrick ...
    Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of ... Read more

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    Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability

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    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
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  • Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences

    Methods That Matter

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    Uncovering the Social Fabric of Environmental Governance

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    Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change

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    Theoretical and Critical Perspectives

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