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Complexity Theory Living Systems and Sustainable Development

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The definition of Complexity Theory Living Systems and Sustainable Development is built on the confluence of ways of knowing, being and acting in the world an approach to solve fragmentation of problems. An evolutionary emergence of solutions for solving complex sustainability problems is build from matter, form and processes towards creating interconnections forming a whole living systems pattern.

Introduction

The world which brings consciousness into existence becomes the world of that consciousness. -Jean Paul Sartre (Friere 1970, p. 251)

What bonus or increment of knowing follows from combining information from two or more sources? (Bateson 1979, p. 67)

In order to present definitions or frameworks for understanding literature on epistemological (systems of knowing), ontological (ways of being), and onto-epistemological (quantum entangled) relationships between living systems and sustainable development, complexity theoriesprovide such methodologies as windows into...

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  1. School of Education, College of Professional Studies, The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, USA

    Aaron W. Kadoch & Joy Kcenia O’Neil

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Kadoch, A.W., O’Neil, J.K. (2019). Complexity Theory Living Systems and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_248

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