Overview
- First monographical text devoted to this subject matter
- Written by a leading researcher in this emerging field
- Tutorial and self-contained presentation
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Complex population dynamics
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Dynamics of social evolution
- Models of natural selection
- Social relations and kinship
- Stochastic models of social conformity and instability
- Survival strategies under contraints
- data-driven science, modeling and theory building
- complexity
About this book
This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more interdisciplinary and quantitative approach across very diverse fields of research in the humanities and social sciences.
Through the examples treated in this work – including anthropology, demography, migration, geopolitics, management, and bioecology, among other things – evidence is gathered to show that volatile environments may change the rules of the evolutionary selection and dynamics of any social system, creating a situation of adaptive uncertainty, in particular, whenever the rate of change of the environment exceeds the rate of adaptation.
Last but notleast, it is hoped that this book will contribute to the understanding that inherent randomness can also be a great opportunity – for social systems and individuals alike – to help face the challenge of “survival under uncertainty”.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Survival under Uncertainty
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution
Authors: Dimitri Volchenkov
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39421-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39419-0Published: 05 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81883-2Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39421-3Published: 28 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Complexity