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Alternative Futures Perspectives on Sustainability, Coherence and Chaos
Author(s) -
Mannermaa Mika
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.1995.tb00052.x
Subject(s) - futures contract , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , sustainability , globalization , chaos theory , perspective (graphical) , sociology , economic system , order (exchange) , environmental ethics , management science , economics , positive economics , political science , computer science , management , mathematics , ecology , chaotic , law , artificial intelligence , philosophy , statistics , finance , financial economics , biology
In this article some ‘megaphenomena’ of our times are de cribed; they include man's conflict with nature, the end of the industrial era and the globalization process. These changes are creating chaos as well as a coherence or sustainability at the same time. It is maintained that real development in society and in culture needs the special form of deterministic order called chaos; often needed to establish something new. Turbulent times are changing values, especially the idea of progress. Instead of dominant Western ideas of linear or exponential progress, it is suggested that an evolutionary perspective for describing societal development is needed. Some preliminary hypotheses of the elements of this perspective are presented, including the principles of self‐organization, non‐linearity, dynamic systems and emergent properties in the development of societal systems.