Journal on Policy and Complex Systems: Volume 8, Number 1

This edition of the Journal on Policy and Complex Systems explores topics concerning our shared humanity. In “Approaching Human Security” Jonathan Granoff proposes a human-center approach to international security. Needlessly to say, given the interconnectedness of today’s world, when drums of war appear to sound everywhere from Eastern Europe to the Pacific, an “integral approach to Human Security is both morally compelling and practically necessary”. Bernardo Alves Furtado, an expert in Urban Science, presents here his latest work, “Policy choices and modeling: an illustration using commuting”. In a post-Covid reality, where governments still struggle with inflation and the private sector is looking for alternatives to transform idle office space into habitable units, policy informed by the right computational simulation tools is a necessity – and thus, this work becomes even more relevant. Paul Embrechts, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at ETH Zurich and ambassador of the Risk Lab, discusses his upcoming book (co-authored with Valérie Chavez-Demoulin and Marius Hofert): “Risk Revealed: Cautionary Tales, Understanding and Communication”. As a pioneer of Extreme Value Theory in Insurance Mathematics, Prof. Embrechts provides a unique insight into the practice of risk-based decision-making and the practical aspects of risk communications in events as diverse as floods and pandemics. In this age of large language models and generative neural networks, the very practice of scientific discovery is undergoing a transformation. Venegas and Kotanchek offer their take in “Generative AI for Scientific Discovery: Uncertainty and Complexity in Empirical Models”. Heriberto Báez-Martínez and Carol Hoban present a study at the intersection of education and the military health system in “Assessment of Health Literacy Proficiency and Awareness Among Healthcare Providers at a U.S. Army Medical Treatment Facility”. The matter of scale, central to the study of complex systems, is highlighted by the authors’ recommendation to distinguish between health literacy training at the individual and organizational levels. Finally, we present our first “Complexity research digest” an effort to disseminate the recent work of the complexity science research centers around the world. In this issue, we present a summary of the latest publications by the New England Complex Systems Institute. We sincerely desire that the community of practitioners and policymakers may find inspiration and helpful resources in this issue of the Journal.

Venegas, Percy ; Johnson, Liz; Cochran, Joseph. (ed.) (2023). Journal on Policy and Complex Systems: Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2023. Westphalia Press. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1637238158 doi: 10.18278/jpcs.8.1.1 Amazon

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Sources: Journal on Policy and Complex Systems: Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2023. Westphalia Press.
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