Bøger af David G. Green

Provides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality. The author seeks to examine and analyse the importance of party discipline, the relationship between the Labour group of councillors and the party outside the council, the power of the committee chairmen, and the openness of the local policy-making process.

This book explores the concept of dual phase evolution, focusing on the relationship between dual phase evolution and other phase transition phenomena and the advantages of dual phase evolution in evolutionary computation and complex adaptive systems.

Just as ants create an anthill without being aware of it, unintended side effects of human activity create all manner of social trends and crises. Finally, it looks at the way side effects of new technologies, especially computers and communication, have created an Information Revolution, the full repercussions of which are yet to be seen.

Recent research on complexity and artificial life provides many new insights about patterns and processes in landscapes and ecosystems. Successful management of the world's ecosystems needs to combine models of ecosystem complexity with biodiversity, environmental, geographic and socioeconomic information.