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MICRO MESO MACRO
Addressing Complex Systems Couplings

edited by Hans Liljenström (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) & Uno Svedin (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas), Sweden)

Table of Contents (94k)
Preface (202k)
Chapter 1: System Features, Dynamics and Resilience - Some Introductory Remarks (651k)

In the domain of science concerned with systems structure and behavior, the issue of the relationship between the micro and the macro level is of key importance. This book concentrates on the interplay between these levels and has a special focus on the level "in between" — the meso level.

An investigation of those links is made through a number of cases from different domains of science, including physics, chemistry, ecology, social science, economics and technology. What is evident is that there are facets regarding meso-level issues that are similar between cases, but also that the domains differ in various ways. This is particularly exemplified by the differences in perspectives from which the natural and social sciences deal with scaling issues. The various examples provided in this book mirror its overriding theme: systems complexity.


Contents:

  • The "Vertical" System Structure and Meso-Level Characteristics:
  • Mesoscopic Levels in Science — Some Comments (H Haken)
  • The Necessity for Mesoscopic Organization to Connect Neural Function to Brain Function (W J Freeman)
  • A Revolution in the Middle Kingdom (R E Ulanowicz)
  • Inner and Outer Dynamics:
  • Time Rescaling and Generalized Entropy in Relation to the Internal Measurement Concept (I Rojdestvenski & M G Cottam)
  • Resource Dynamics, Social Interactions, and the Tragedy of the Commons (A Mashanova & R Law)
  • Stability of Social Interaction (S D Flåm)
  • Resilience and Shocks:
  • Systems, Shocks and Time Bombs (N Winder)
  • Resilience in Utility Technologies (R Seaton)
  • Risk and Crisis Management in Complex Systems (K Bertels & J-M Jacques)
  • and other articles


Readership: Graduate students, researchers, practitioners, professionals and general readers in any discipline.

376pp Pub. date: May 2005
ISBN 978-981-238-918-3
981-238-918-0
US$100 / £55


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Updated on 23 July 2008