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Guest Editors’ Note
Part I—Sources of Complexity: Science and Information
15-33
Complexity and Life
Fritjof Capra
34-52
Ecology, a Dialog between the Quick and the Dead
Robert E. Ulanowicz
53-62
Complexity and Environmental Education
Carlos J. Delgado Díaz
63-76
Key Issues Regarding the Origin, Nature, and Evolution of Complexity in Nature: Information as a Central Concept to Understand Biological Organization
Alvaro Moreno & Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo
Part 2—Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications
77-84
Why We Cannot Know Complex Things Completely
Paul Cilliers
85-93
From Paradigms to Figures of Thought
Denise Najmanovich
94-104
Complex Dynamical Systems and the Problem of Identity
Alicia Juarrero
105-116
Complexity, Society, and Everyday Life
Pedro Sotolongo
Part 3—Organizational Implications
117-130
Emergence Happens! Misguided Paradigms Regarding Organizational Change and the Role of Complexity and Patterns in the Change Landscape
James Falconer
131-146
Modeling of Social Organizations: Necessity and Possibility
Raimundo J. Franco Parellada
147-163
The New Complex Perspective in Economic Analysis and Business Management
Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Elena Olmedo Fernández, & Juan Manuel Valderas Jaramillo
Part 4—Global and Ethical Implications
164-183
Complexity, Ideology, and Governance
Roger Strand
184-199
Globalization and the Complexity of Human Dignity
Ken Cole
200-206
The Consolations of Uncertainty: Time, Change, and Complexity
Carl A. Rubino
207-211
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