Book description
Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response. Social labs bring together a diverse a group of stakeholders—not to create yet another five-year plan but to develop a portfolio of prototype solutions, test those solutions in the real world, use the data to further refine them, and test them again. Hassan builds on a decade of experience—as well as drawing from cutting-edge research in complexity science, networking theory, and sociology—to explain the core principles and daily functioning of social labs, using examples of pioneering labs from around the world. He offers a new generation of problem solvers an effective, practical, and exciting new vision and guide.Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The perfect Storm of complexity
- 2 The Strategic vacuum
- 3 The Sustainable Food lab: From Farm to Fork
- 4 The bhavishya lab: The Silent emergency
- 5 The new ecologies of capital
- 6 The Rise of the agilistas
- 7 Steps Toward a Theory of Systemic action
- 8 Starting a Social lab: Seven how-Tos
- Conclusion Next-Generation Social Labs
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- About Reos
Product information
- Title: The Social Labs Revolution
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781626560758
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