—Latest blog entries include
**”Wake-up calls make linear crisis scenarios V-shaped: the example of COVID-19“
**”Power, or: Surprised by the Battles of Waterloo“
**”Catastrophized cascades“
**”Trump’s Anthropocene“
**”If only tyrants were extinguished in their own contraptions“
—When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for recasting policy and management in the Anthropocene can be found at
When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene (links to the Guide and schematic)
–Those interested in newly updated extensions of the Guide, please see:
**”Sourcing new ideas from the humanities, fine arts, and other media for complex policy analysis and management (newly added)“
**”17 examples on how genre differences affect the structure and substance of policy and management [newly added]” structure-and-substance-of-policy-and-management-last-newly-added/
**”Instead of “differentiated by gender, race and class,” why not “differentiated by heterogeneity and complexity”? Ten examples of racism, class, capitalism, inequalities, border controls, authoritarianism, COVID and more”
**”New method matters in reframing policy and management (recently added)”
**”Emerging counternarratives on: migrants, border controls, digital networks, remittances, child labor, COVID’s impact (Africa and Europe), and global neoliberalism”
—Other major new reads:
**”The ‘future’ in HRO Studies: the example of networked reliability”
**”The siloing of approaches to discourse and narrative analyses in public policy“
**”A National Academy of Reliable Infrastructure Management”
**”‘Learning discrepantly’ for policy & management (updated and expanded)“
**”The value added from rethinking ‘prediction’ and ‘imagination’ in more granular terms“
**”I understand why others feel compelled to defend the humanities and arts. But their direct relevance for public policy and management has always been obvious.”
**”The Centrality of Restoration Resilience Across Interconnected Critical Infrastructures for Emergency Management: A Framework and Key Implications”
—Key blog entries on livestock herders, pastoralists and pastoralisms are:
**”If not corpse-pastoralism, then what are we seeing? Four other suggestions and key upshot for re-seeing what we thought we knew.“
**”Time to think more radically: three new policy narratives extremely different from current positions in pastoralist development”
**”Working pastoralism as a scene-making infrastructure“
**”Other fresh perspectives on pastoralists and pastoralism: 17 brief cases (last newly added)”
**”A ‘reliability-seeking economics in pastoralist development”
**”Twelve new extensions of “pastoralists as reliability professionals” and “pastoralism as a critical infrastructure”
**”First complicate those for-or-against-pastoralism arguments and then see the policy relevance: four brief examples”
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 