How Human Adaptive Systems Balance Fundamental Trade-offs: Implications For Polycentric Governance Architectures
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17 avril 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pressesmines.1125
- isbn: 9782911256479
- eisbn: 9782356710918
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David D. Woods et al., « How Human Adaptive Systems Balance Fundamental Trade-offs: Implications For Polycentric Governance Architectures », Presses des Mines, ID : 10.4000/books.pressesmines.1125
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Investigations into complex adaptive systems (CAS) have identified multiple trade-offs that place hard limits on the behavior of adaptive systems of any type. Complexity theory continues to search for a formalization that can unify these trade-offs around one or a few fundamental ones, and explain how observed tradeoffs are derived from the most basic ones (Alderson and Doyle, 2010). Resilience Engineering (RE) also arose from the recognition that basic trade-offs placed hard limits on the safety performance of teams and organizations in the context of pressures for systems to be “faster, better, cheaper” (Woods, 2006; Hollnagel, 2009). Combining the results from CAS on physical complex systems with the results from RE on high risk, high consequence human designed systems leads to a potential unification. The unification consists of (a) five basic trade-offs that bound the performance of all human adaptive systems (Hoffman and Woods, 2011), and (b) an architecture for polycentric control or governance based on regulating margin of maneuver to be able to dynamically balance the conflicts, risks and pressures that arise from the fundamental trade-offs.