Complex systems
Wicked problems – resilience, adaptation and complexity
Deciding upon policy interventions to support community resilience presents us with both a ‘wicked’ and a
‘messy’ problem and calls for ‘clumsy’ policy solutions and interventions.
‘messy’ problem and calls for ‘clumsy’ policy solutions and interventions.
Managing Complex Systems: The Need to Structure Qualitative Data
This paper shows how 'structured output' methods can ‘abstract’ important issues and concepts and feed into planning and policy outputs.
Agent-based modelling: A tool for addressing the complexity of environment and development policy issues
This working paper introduces agent-based modelling as a potential tool for examining complex modern policy problems, and offers examples from recent applications.
Dialogue for decision-making: unpacking the ‘City Learning Lab’ approach
The FRACTAL ‘City Learning Lab’ approach is designed to facilitate problem-solving at the intersection of climate change and urbanization trends across cities in Southern Africa.