...-use rights only Decision-making Energy management Complexity theory Forecasting Adaptive system theory Economic trends Humanity faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. While crisis is nothing new, the planetary scale of these intersecting crises, and their capacity to amplify...

... of GDP. It stood at 540 per cent of GDP in 2010 (Varoufakis, 2013, p. 168). 4 In general, biospheres tend to extend the number of their dimensions as faster as it gets (Kauffman, 2004 , p. 9). Politics Adaptive system theory Thermodynamic approach Economic system Political science Non...

... additional elements by applying complex adaptive systems theory. Findings The authors were able to define two dimensions: information filters' width and depth, that define the outcome of the environment scanning process. The preliminary testing of the research hypotheses was possible...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Research methods Complexity theory Adaptive system theory Following this, two questions are essential in our study: 1. Do the methods present the future as an extension of the past or do they recognize new and initial conditions that could...