Linking complexity and sustainability theories : implications for modeling sustainability transitions

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dc.contributor.authorPeter, Camarenen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSwilling, Marken_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-15T14:17:29Z
dc.date.available2015-09-15T14:17:29Z
dc.date.issued2014-03
dc.descriptionPlease cite as follows: Peter, C. & Swilling, M. 2014. Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions. Sustainability, 6(3):1594-1622, doi:10.3390/su6031594.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/3/1594en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling transitions to sustainability. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex systems’ properties that characterize the different theories that deal with transitions to sustainability. We argue that adopting a complexity theory based approach for modeling transitions requires going beyond deterministic frameworks; by adopting a probabilistic, integrative, inclusive and adaptive approach that can support transitions. We also illustrate how this complexity-based modeling framework can be implemented; i.e., how it can be used to select modeling techniques that address particular properties of complex systems that we need to understand in order to model transitions to sustainability. In doing so, we establish a complexity-based approach towards modeling sustainability transitions that caters for the broad range of complex systems’ properties that are required to model transitions to sustainability.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationPeter, C. & Swilling, M. 2014. Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions. Sustainability, 6(3):1594-1622, doi:10.3390/su6031594.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050 (online)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.3390/su6031594
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97506
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectComplexity theoryen_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectResilienceen_ZA
dc.subjectDecouplingen_ZA
dc.subjectSocio-metabolismen_ZA
dc.subjectBehavioral changeen_ZA
dc.titleLinking complexity and sustainability theories : implications for modeling sustainability transitionsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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