Reframing complexity : perspectives from the north and south / edited by Fritjof Capra ... [et al.].

A selection of papers presented at the first International Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory, held in Jan. 2002 at the Instituto de Filosofía, Havana, Cuba.

Introd. also available online.

Includes bibliographical references.

Complexity and life / Fritjof Capra -- Ecology, a dialog between the quick and the dead / Robert E. Ulanowicz -- Complexity and environmental education / Carlos J. Delgado Dâiaz -- Key issues regarding the origin, nature, and evolution of complexity in nature : information as a central concept to understand biological organization / Alvaro Moreno & Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo -- Why we cannot know complex things completely / Paul Cilliers -- From paradigms to figures of thought / Denise Najmanovich -- Complex dynamical systems and the problem of identity / Alicia Juarrero -- Complexity, society, and everyday life / Pedro Sotolongo -- Emergence happens! Misguided paradigms regarding organizational change and the role of complexity and patterns in the change landscape / James Falconer -- Modeling of social organizations : necessity and possibility / Raimundo J. Franco Parellada -- The new complex perspective in economic analysis and business management / Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Elena Olmedo Fernâandez & Juan Manuel Valderas Jaramillo -- Complexity, ideology, and governance / Roger Strand -- Globalization and the complexity of human dignity / Ken Cole -- The consolations of uncertainty : time, change, and complexity / Carl A. Rubino.