..., and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. global systemic risk complex adaptive systems CAS fragility resilience systems-of-systems global networks self-organized networks feedback loops cascades networks globalization illusion of control adaptive...

... of complexity thinking illusion of control “Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy...

...Jan W. Vasbinder; Sander van der Leeuw; Victor Galaz This is an introduction for the special collection on “Illusion of Control”. Both simplifications are based on an illusion—namely, a sense of certainty that the simplified world represents reality. Humans need that sense of certainty...

..., the effectiveness of these laws could be doubted. Even more importantly, respect for human dignity, the rationale of these laws, seems to be seriously at stake. We could understand recent developments in anti-corruption law as an illusion of control. Even more vitally, anti-corruption law could be considered...

... in the context of complexity. The illusion of control of future circumstances that afflicts governance at all scales, sharpening conflict and fracturing even relatively mature national societies, is particularly dangerous in the context of the deep global connectivity effected in the past three decades...