From Map Follower to Navigator: Archetypes of Environmental Impact Assessment
ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) scholarship is commonly framed as a tension between efficiency and comprehensiveness paradigms. These paradigms describe a persistent tension but cannot explain how EIA operates through it. Drawing on social systems theory, this analysis traces that operation.
Kenneth Kang
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Mechanism and prevention of bed separation water hazards in karst coal mining areas of Northern Guizhou Province, China. [PDF]
Gao Z +5 more
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Toward an Intermediate Structural Representation of Organization in Complex Systems
ABSTRACT Organization is widely recognized as a fundamental concept in complex systems science, yet it rarely appears as an explicit object of scientific representation. Existing approaches successfully represent components, interactions, mechanisms, dynamical states, networks, or functions, but organizational properties are generally inferred from ...
Paméla Magotte
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Evolution's hidden architecture: a non-lipschitz theory of creation and catastrophe. [PDF]
Durán-Olivencia MA.
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Catastrophe optics theory unveils the localised wave aberration features that generate ghost images. [PDF]
Barbero S +4 more
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The Reflexive Turn in Systems Engineering: A Disciplinary Response to Complexity
ABSTRACT The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) programme has called for the discipline to evolve as a transdiscipline capable of engaging complex eco‐socio‐technical challenges. Yet the pace of that evolution has been slower than the arguments for it would predict. This article examines why.
Raul Leal Ascencio
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Investigation of risk-aware dynamic accident monitoring and early warning technologies for chemical production processes. [PDF]
Lv C, Wang X, Xue S, Wang S.
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Monitoring and Prediction of Horizontal Displacement of Underground Enclosure Piles in Subway Foundation Pits. [PDF]
Dong Y +5 more
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Modelling non-linear psychological processes: Reviewing and evaluating non-parametric approaches and their applicability to intensive longitudinal data. [PDF]
Failenschmid JI +3 more
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