Why society is a complex matter : meeting twenty-first century challenges with a new kind of science
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technolog...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Heidelberg :
Springer
cop. 2012.
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Why Society is a Complex Matter, Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science, by Philip Ball., 1., Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer, 2012, 978-3-642-29000-8 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Society: a Complex Problem On the Road: Predicting traffic Every Move You Make: Patterns of crowd movement Making Your Mind Up: Norms and decisions Broken Windows: The spread and control of crime The Social Web: Networks and their failures.- Spreading It Around: Mobility, disease and epidemics After the Crash: Economic and financial systems Love Thy Neighbour: How to foster cooperation Living Cities: Urban development as a complex system The Transformation of War: Modelling modern conflict Towards a Living Earth Simulator: The FuturICT Project