Simplifying complexity
A review of complexity theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14169477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Spero Manson (0000-0001-7697-5339, Clark University, corresponding author), Steven M Manson |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 405-414 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0016-7185(00)00035-x |
| OpenAlex | W2026074664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 146 |
| References cited | 59 |
Complexity science · Data science · Economics · Epistemology · Hyperbole · Management science · Metaphor · Social complexity · Social science · Sociology · Typology · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Computer Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
Aids, Culture, and Africa
Towards a Method of Participatory Planning in an Emerging Metropolitan Delta in the Context of Climate Change
Complex Adaptive Systems and Urban Morphogenesis
Big Data (R)evolution in Geography
Understanding global health governance as a complex adaptive system
Sensemaking
Navigating emergence and system reflexivity as key transformative capacities
Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors
Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human and natural systems
Navigating the Back Loop
Integrating Research Tools to Support the Management of Social-Ecological Systems Under Climate Change
Constructing stability landscapes to identify alternative states in coupled social-ecological agent-based models
Cascading Impacts of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Complex Human-Environment Systems
Agent-Based Models
The Biased Interaction Game
Modeling deforestation in Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, Lilongwe, Malawi
Wrestling with the bottom line in medical education
A regionális tudomány dualitása és paradigmái – hazai tükörben
Agent-based Models in Supporting Pedestrian Transportation Planning and Design
Full Journal
Reconsidering Volunteering
Palm Oil Diaspora
Ancient Greece
The resilience of entrepreneurial ecosystems
Quantitative Revolution 2
Modeling human decisions in coupled human and natural systems
Multi-Agent Systems for the Simulation of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
The emergence of entrepreneurial ecosystems
Assessing a farm's sustainability
Moving Canadian governmental policies beyond a focus on individual lifestyle
From Chicago to L.A. and Back Again
Developing a Model for Integrating of Tuberculosis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Primary Healthcare Services in Oliver Reginald (O.R) Tambo District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Conceptualizing Climate Vulnerability in Complex Adaptive Systems
Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction
Public health emergency preparedness
Sociopolitical Approach to the Launch History of the KBO League
A theoretical framework for experiential learning
Breaking barriers in audit quality
Social norms structure underlying health behaviors
The adaptive shift
Beyond Linearity
The complexity epistemology and ontology in second language acquisition
From an agent-based laboratory to the real world
Agricultural nature conservation in the Netherlands
Clean problems
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives
Water, risk and vulnerability in Bangladesh
Should all disaster risks be reduced? A perspective from the systems concept of the edge of chaos
Communities of knowledge
Towards a Smart Tourism Business Ecosystem based on Industrial Heritage
Identifying uncertainties in judging the significance of human impacts on Natura 2000 sites
Integrated water resources management
Regenerating Unpopular Social Housing Estates
How to identify and interpret weak signals of change in the forest bioeconomy
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization
Tender for the night
Principles for place-based accessibility planning
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change
The fifth debate and the emergence of complex international relations theory
Towards an improved understanding of farmers' behaviour
More than trees! Understanding the agroforestry adoption gap in subsistence agriculture
Geographic information science I
Urban geography III
World city topologies
Considering how morphological traits of urban fabric create affordances for complex adaptation and emergence
Geographic information science II
Health geographies I
Towards a statistical approach to humanistic-geographical place concepts
Housing inequality
Phase space
Geopolitical assemblages and complexity
Critical Realism
Problem-solving and organisation of public-funded challenge-based research projects using a wicked problem lens
ChatGPT use in hospitality and tourism
Landscapes and resistance in the African diaspora
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana
Exurbia from the bottom-up
Does scale exist? An epistemological scale continuum for complex human-environment systems
Complexity theory, spatial simulation models, and land use dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon
Becoming-forest, becoming-local
Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand
Coupled and complex
Biocomplexity in coupled human-natural systems
Neoliberalism on the molecular scale. Economic and genetic reductionism in biotechnology battles
Multiscale system dynamics of humans and nature in The Bahamas
Successful Integration and Maintenance of Screening for Domestic Violence in the Health Sector
Multi-stakeholder participation for sustainable delta management
Unpacking digital co-production - A scenario-based framework for comparing digital public services
Biologies and Beings
The soft underbelly of complexity science adoption in policymaking
The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies
Epistemological possibilities and imperatives of complexity research
A response to simplifying complexity
Family-level factors to reintegrate street-involved children in low- and middle-income countries
Land banking, land price and Ghana’s informal land markets
Understanding the role of land attachment in the emergence of hollow villages based on the agent-based complex system framework
Land-use change and socio-ecological drivers of wetland conversion in Ha Tien Plain, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Low-density housing in sustainable urban planning – Scaling down to private gardens by using the green infrastructure concept
Designing an incubator of public spaces platform
A Self-Modifying Cellular Automaton Model of Historical Urbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area
A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems
Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics
Complexity and the Economy
Locational analysis in human geography
Les pionniers de l'écologie
The Dictionary of human geography
Governing the Commons
Artificial Societies
Simulating Social Phenomena
The Limits of Rationality
On Emergence and Explanation
Urban Systems as Examples of Bounded Chaos
Urban Systems as Examples of Bounded Chaos
Environmental Systems
Postmodernism and the Localities Debate
General System Theory
Emergent complex systems
Complexity
Futures research and complexity
Sociology and Biosociology
General Systems Theory and Geography
Divergence, Convergence, and Self-Organization in Landscapes
A Diamond Anniversary
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
Science and the Modern World
Chaos and Order
Complexity and post-modernism
The Origins of War
Cellular Automata and Fractal Urban Form
The Postmodern Condition
Chaos as Orderly Disorder
Logit Models and Chaotic Behaviour
The Predicament of Culture
Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks
The Place of Complexity
| Unique citing works | 146 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 126 |