Embracing Complexity through System Thinking

The following is the start of a list of resources recommended for you to engage with complexity in practice, both at policy and implementation level.

Duncan Green. 2016. "How Change Happens".

System Thinking for development practitioners

Essential reading from the senior strategic advisor at OXFAM.

Complexity mapped - sdgs

Blanc, David Le. 2015. “Towards Integration at Last ? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets.”

Nilsson, M, D Griggs, and M Visback. 2016. “Map the Interactions between Sustainable Development Goals.” Nature 534 (15): 320–22.

Nilsson, Måns, Elinor Chisholm, David Griggs, Philippa Howden-Chapman, David McCollum, Peter Messerli, Barbara Neumann, Anne Sophie Stevance, Martin Visbeck, and Mark Stafford-Smith. 2018. “Mapping Interactions between the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward.” Sustainability Science

From Blanc, David Le. 2015. “Towards Integration at Last ? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets.” — From *Blanc, David Le. 2015. “Towards Integration at Last ? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets.”*

complexity in action - push-pull

Flagship project of icipe - the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. See here for a short commentary I co-authored, and here for a lengthier journal article I co-authored.

system thinking applied - Isdg/t21 model

Application of a complex system dynamic model that simulates the fundamental trends for SDGs until 2030 under a business-as-usual scenario, and supports the analysis of relevant alternative scenarios. See here for a research article published on the matter.

MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity

An online resource for international trade data and economic complexity indicators available through interactive visualizations of countries and products.

BEACONS OF HOPE

24 case studies of people around the world transforming the food system with their initiatives. The publication is a collaboration between the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and Biovision Foundation for Ecological Development, and includes a toolkit.