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The Labyrinth of Corruption in the Construction Industry: A System Dynamics Model Based on 40 Years of Research
The academic literature has viewed drivers of corruption in isolation and, consequently, failed to examine their synergistic effect. Such an isolated...
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Interactive agential dynamics
The study of active matter systems demonstrates how interactions might co-constitute agential dynamics. Active matter systems are comprised of...
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The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain
Sustainable Public Food Procurement (SPFP) is gaining recognition for its potential to improve the sustainability of food systems and promote...
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Esca** the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice
Contemporary society operates beyond safe boundaries of the Earth system. Returning to a safe operating space for humanity within Earth system...
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Typicality of Dynamics and Laws of Nature
Certain results, most famously in classical statistical mechanics and complex systems, but also in quantum mechanics and high-energy physics, yield a...
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Conflict Dynamics
In this chapter, we will try to investigate how parties may develop strategies and orient the dynamics of a conflict to obtain their goals. In order...
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Harvesting connections: the role of stakeholders’ network structure, dynamics and actors’ influence in sha** farmers’ markets
Farmers’ markets (FMs) represent a crucial player in urban food systems, being the interconnection of local agricultural production and consumption,...
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“Taken-left” dynamics? Rethink the livelihood changes of affected villagers in the era of the global land rush
When large-scale common land is taken from villagers by investors with little compensation, their labour unneeded, villagers’ livelihoods tend to be...
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Convergence to Quantum Equilibrium: Deterministic vs Stochastic Pilot Wave Dynamics
We compare the onset of quantum equilibrium in the (deterministic) de Broglie-Bohm (dBB) formalism with its counterpart in the (stochastic) formalism...
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System
This short contribution aims to summarize the relevance and necessity of using the concept of system and the systemic approach to understand the...
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Sentience as a System Property: Learning Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness
Veit suggests that the challenge of coordinating movement in multicellular organisms led to the evolution of a prioritizing value system, which...
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What Influence Could the Acceptance of Visitors Cause on the Epidemic Dynamics of a Reinfectious Disease?: A Mathematical Model
The globalization in business and tourism becomes crucial more and more for the economical sustainability of local communities. In the presence of an...
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Conclusion: Contingently Situated Literature and Court Dynamics
Over the course of this book, the definition ‘courtly writing’ eventually proves unproductively fuzzy and limiting, giving way instead to a portrait...
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What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple
Recent years have seen widespread calls to transform food systems to address complex demands such as feeding a growing global population while...
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Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy
The Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy at the heart of the European Union’s Green Deal set out to create a “just transition” towards a sustainable food...
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Respecting boundaries: theoretical equivalence and structure beyond dynamics
A standard line in the contemporary philosophical literature has it that physical theories are equivalent only when they agree on their empirical...
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System Theory
The basic principles of the theory of systemsTheory of systems developed by Karl Ludwig von BertalanffyVon Bertalanffy, Karl Ludwig are explained...
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Maps, Simulations, Spaces and Dynamics: On Distinguishing Types of Structural Representations
Structural representations are likely the most talked about representational posits in the contemporary debate over cognitive representations....
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Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tip** points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science
Earth system science (ESS) and modelling have given rise to a new conceptual framework in the recent decades, which goes much beyond climate science....