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Professor Hasselmann has demonstrated the difficulties of modelling complex systems such as climate systems in evolution and socio-economic systems. The problems involved may be considered from the viewpoint of scaling, where one is faced with the fact that — dependent on scale — different variables have different relative importance.
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Fränzle, O. (1998). Commentary: Global Environment and Society (GES) Models, a Problem of Multiple Control Theory. In: Schellnhuber, HJ., Wenzel, V. (eds) Earth System Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52354-0_22
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