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IDS Working Paper 589

When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene

Published on 6 June 2023

Many readers recognise and understand that complex is about as simple as it gets for major policy and management.

This guide is for those unwilling in the Anthropocene to shrink back into the older platitudes about ‘keep it simple’ and ‘not to worry, we’ll scale up the analysis later on’. This guide offers key concepts, methods, counternarratives, and analogies that recast major policy and management issues in ways that do not deny their complexity but help render them more tractable for action.

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Roe, E. (2023) When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene, IDS Working Paper 589, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2023.025

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Institute of Development Studies
doi
10.19088/IDS.2023.025
isbn
978-1-80470-120-1
issn
2040-0209
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English

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