Our new “Visions for Complexity”


Jan 1, 2019

CSH Vienna Newsletter calls for climate action

 

It is the time of the year when people tend to set New Year’s resolutions. I usually avoid that. But this year is different: The alarming increase in weather extremes in 2018 not only proves how devastating the effects of heating up the planet can get—and we haven’t even reached the 1,5°C warming yet. It also shows that action cannot be delayed any longer.

 

As the editorial of our new Newsletter “Visions for Complexity” says
[click here for the whole Newsletter]:

 

For me as a layperson (with a little bit of an insight), it is perhaps the message from complexity science: Complex systems keep an equilibrium, withstanding all squeezing and punching, for a surprisingly long time. Their resilience make us believe that we can handle it. But there is this point—a point we’d better not cross. If squeezing and punching proceeds beyond it, the system will eventually—”out of the blue”—abandon its steady state and change. Not in a gentle, linear way: A complex system is by no means like a machine; replacing single parts won’t fix the thing. Once it gets started, there is no way to stop the process, nor to interfere with it. Shocks will cascade through the system’s networks, destroying parts, rearranging and transforming the whole, and will not stop doing so until the system reaches a new, hitherto unknown equilibrium. This is what complexity people, in my opinion, should unceasingly be telling the world: Crossing the tipping point means ‘out of control!”

 

 

To avoid the tipping point, please join me in my New Year’s pledge:

 

Stop talking, start acting—and degrow the human footprint.

 

Yours,

 

Verena Ahne

(Head of Knowledge Transfer)

 


Publication

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Curbing the Violence by Mexican Cartels

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Unlocking Urban Diversity: The Magnetism of Complex Amenities

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Why do some environmental shocks lead to disaster while others don't?

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New study uncovers the Causes of the Qing Dynasty's Collapse

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CSH hosts workshop on visualizing complexity science

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Wallet 2.0: What Does the Future of Money Look Like?

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Open Arms Grant: How conferences can ensure global participation

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Aug 1, 2023

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News

Jul 27, 2023

A lot of exchanges and discussions at NetSci

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Prenatal malnutrition increases diabetes incidence later in life

Spotlight

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CSH Spin-Off Iknaio receives aws seed funding

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Kindesmissbrauch: Wie Kriminelle die Anonymität des Darknets nutzen


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Podcast "Was wichtig ist"


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„Leider sind Bürgerkriege sehr wahrscheinlich“


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R. Prieto-Curiel, G. M. Capedelli, A. Hope

Reducing cartel recruitment is the only way to lower violence in Mexico

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Publication

B. Méro, A. Borsos, et al.

A High-Resolution, Data-Driven Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2023) 104738

Publication

S. Juhász, G. Pintér, et al.

Amenity complexity and urban locations of socio-economic mixing

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Publication

R. Hanel, S. Thurner

Equivalence of information production and generalised entropies in complex processes

PLOS ONE 18(9) (2023) e0290695

Publication

K. Frenken, F. Neffke, A. van Dam

Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (2023) rsad021

Publication

G. Orlandi, D. Hoyer, et al.

Structural-demographic analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) collapse in China

PLoS ONE 18(8) (2023) e0289748

Publication

N. Kushwaha, E.D. Lee

Discovering the mesoscale for chains of conflict

PNAS Nexus 2(7) (2023) pgad228

Publication

H. Metzler, D. Garcia

Social Drivers and Algorithmic Mechanisms on Digital Media

Perspectives on Psychological Science (2023)

Publication

M. Laber, P. Klimek, et al.

Shock propagation from the Russia–Ukraine conflict on international multilayer food production network determines global food availability

Nature Food (2023) doi: 10.1038/s43016-023-00771-4

Publication

M. Kaleta, et al.

Diabetes incidence in Austria: The role of famines on diabetes and related NCDs

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Publication

D. R. Lo Sardo, S. Thurner, et al.

Systematic population-wide ecological analysis of regional variability in disease prevalence

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R. Prieto-Curiel, J. E. Patino, B. Anderson

Scaling of the morphology of African cities

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