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.
- Published by
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
- Author
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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
- 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
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index.