When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene

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When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene
Abstract
Many readers recognise and understand that complex is about as simple as it gets for major policy and management. This guide is for those unwilling in the Anthropocene to shrink back into the older platitudes about ‘keep it simple’ and ‘not to worry, we’ll scale up the analysis later on’. This guide offers key concepts, methods, counternarratives, and analogies that recast major policy and management issues in ways that do not deny their complexity but help render them more tractable for action.
Report Number
589
Series Title
IDS Working Paper
Place
Brighton
Institution
Institute for Development Studies
Date
2023-06-06
Language
en
Short Title
When Complex is as Simple as it Gets
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09/06/2023, 16:11
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This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated.
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Accepted: 2023-06-06T09:51:20Z ISSN: 2040-0209 DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2023.025
Citation
Roe, E. (2023). When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene (No. 589; IDS Working Paper). Institute for Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.19088/IDS.2023.025