Societal systems - Complex or worse?

Futures

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-157

  Andersson, Claes ^a   Törnberg, Anton ^b   Törnberg, Petter ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complexity; Complicatedness; Models; Theory; Wicked problems; Wicked systems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; HEURISTICS; MODELING;

EID: 84907394977     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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