TY  - BOOK
AU  - Page,Scott
TI  - Diversity and Complexity
T2  - Primers in Complex Systems
SN  - 9780691137674
AV  - HM701 .P34 2011
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - Regional Studies
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social systems
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prelude: The Meaning of Diversity --; 1. On Diversity and Complexity --; 2. Measuring Diversity --; 3. The Creation and Evolution of Diversity --; 4. Constraints on Diversity --; 5. Variation in Complex Systems --; 6. Diversity's Inescapable Benefits I: Averaging --; 7. Diversity's Inescapable Benefits II: Diminishing Returns to Types --; 8. Diversity's Impact in Complex Systems --; 9. Parting Thoughts --; Bibliography --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained diversity within a system. Provides a concise and accessible introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer on diversity in complex adaptive systems
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400835140
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