Introduction to the meta-structures project: Prospective applications

World Futures: Journal of General Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 558-574

  Minati, Gianfranco ^a  

^a Italian Systems Society   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; dynamic; emergence; mesoscopic; structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870014256     PISSN: 02604027     EISSN: 15561844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2012.730431     Document Type: Article

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