A5022789608- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Community Health and Development
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Chaos, Complexity, and Education
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- African cultural and philosophical studies
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Q Methodology Applications
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications
Stellenbosch University
2014-2024
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science
2022-2023
University of Hull
2022
Rogers (United States)
2022
Oregon State University
2022
John Wiley & Sons (United Kingdom)
2022
Hudson Institute
2022
Rhodes University
2021
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2021
Preiser, R., R. Biggs, A. De Vos, and C. Folke. 2018. Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods approaches. Ecology Society 23(4):46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10558-230446
Pereira, L. M., T. Hichert, M. Hamann, R. Preiser, and Biggs. 2018. Using futures methods to create transformative spaces: visions of a good Anthropocene in southern Africa. Ecology Society 23(1):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09907-230119
There is growing interest in studying processes of human sensemaking, as this strongly influences and organizational behavior well complex system dynamics due to the diverse lenses people use interpret act world. The Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® tool one method for capturing making sense people’s attitudes, perceptions, experiences. It used monitoring evaluation; mapping ideas, mind-sets, attitudes; detecting trends weak signals. However, academic literature describing tool-set lacking. This...
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has gained substantial momentum, as witnessed by the growth in SES publications, theories, and frameworks, traction these concepts have development policy arenas. However, of field only been partially examined, which limits our ability to make sense support future its inform pressing sustainability challenges. The aim this study is understand how grown changed over time a using bibliometric methods, co-authorship co-citation network analysis. Our...
Van der Merwe, S. E., R. Biggs, and Preiser. 2018. A framework for conceptualizing assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems. Ecology Society 23(2):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09623-230212
Mancilla García, M., T. Hertz, M. Schlüter, R. Preiser, and Woermann. 2020. Adopting process-relational perspectives to tackle the challenges of social-ecological systems research. Ecology Society 25(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11425-250129
Audouin, M., R. Preiser, S. Nienaber, L. Downsborough, J. Lanz, and Mavengahama. 2013. Exploring the implications of critical complexity for study social-ecological systems. Ecology Society 18(3): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05434-180312
Abstract Research on complex systems is becoming more prolific, and there a need to provide some point of orientation researchers practitioners that are drawing the body literature informs field complexity research. In this paper, I aim give an overview development offer overarching trends patterns recognizable in research systems. The paper then draws work six organizing principles inform practical implications methods for studying understanding
In a complex and turbulent world, there is heightened interest in managing for resilience.However, resilience guides, particularly those used the development field, often lack theoretical grounding adaptive systems.There demand guidance on how to operationalize complexity applications of resilience, such as assessment planning.This study synthesizes lessons from twelve cases social-ecological practice are engaging with complexity.We assessed each case engaged complexity, according framework...
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Abstract The challenges of the Anthropocene were pre‐empted by systems scholars in exposition ‘global problematique’ and are now made manifest what called polycrisis. These framings alert us to our human circumstances but date, have done little transform manners being doing, as polycrisis is an outcome a profound governance crisis. Ongoing reflections, building on framing offered global problematique, IFSR Conversations 2023 addressed these issues. Advocating for more epistemological...
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of sustainability science, informing and supporting pressing issues transformation towards more sustainable, just equitable futures. To date, much SES been done in or from the Global North, where challenges contexts for transformations are substantially different South. This paper synthesises emerging insights on dynamics that can inform actions advance to support specifically southern African context. The draws work...
In this paper we argue for the contribution that deconstruction can make towards an understanding of complex systems. We begin with a description what mean by complexity and how Derrida's thought illustrates sensitivity problems face when dealing This is especially clear in structuralist linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure. compare critique work Edgar Morin, one foremost thinkers contem- porary possible contributions both provide phenomena world. then move on to illustrate particular economy...