The Moonlight Resilience Compass is a guide of light, hope, and strength for children with Long Covid, ME/CFS, and other chronic illnesses – in a world where much remains invisible. A compass does not show how fast one should move, but where one stands and which direction is possible. This is exactly what children with fluctuating strength and uncertain daily lives need. Why the moon and why a compass? Because these illnesses do not follow a linear course; they unfold in cycles: exhaustion...

We live in a time in which global crises no longer occur sequentially, but overlap, reinforce one another and challenge our systems in constantly shifting constellations. In the midst of this dynamic, a new need for orientation is emerging — not through simple answers, but through architectures that make complexity visible, keep uncertainty navigable and distribute responsibility. This framework proposes such an architecture. It unites epistemic, semantic and resilient integrity and shows ...

Governance Bridge between Earth Observation and One Health - Zoonoses do not arise randomly but at interfaces: between species, landscapes, ecological and human movements and between visible and invisible processes. Many of these interfaces are small, fleeting and complex, raising the question of how global remote sensing systems can detect ecological changes that may create new points of contact. GEDI provides a structural view of vegetation and landscape, yet only as a small part of a la...

As the world grows more complex, understanding becomes a collective rather than an individual act. Systems do not react sequentially but simultaneously; developments overlap; and decisions emerge within a field of diverse signals and perspectives. Stability in such a world is no longer a static condition but a question of how we perceive, connect, interpret, and act when signals are fragmented and time windows are narrow. The Global Learning Framework (GLF) begins precisely here: as a univ...

Visual Integrity in Times of Crisis – Strategies for Dealing with AI-Generated Images In disaster situations, every second and every image counts. AI-generated representations can distort perception, destabilize communication, and influence operational decisions on a global scale. This book presents the Semantic Integrity Framework for Disaster Imagery: a strategically developed control system for the evaluation, contextualization, and safeguarding of synthetic visual content. The framewor...

This core textbook provides a practical, holistic introduction to systems thinking.Blending theory and practice, Systems Thinking for Business and Management reviews the fundamentals and includes a wide range of global cases and examples from business, showing how systems thinking can be applied to real-world organizational contexts. Students will learn to apply their knowledge to solve business system problems, carry out systemic organiza...

An in-depth history of Large Language Models—and what their ubiquity, disruption, and creativity mean from a wider sociopolitical perspective.In November 2022, ChatGPT swept the globe with a mixed frenzy of excitement and anxiety. Was this a step closer to reaching singularity or just another marvel in machine learning? Author Stephan Raaijmakers provides a comprehensive introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs), describing what exactly they are capable of from ...

In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly chara...

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction"—an approach to interacting with software systems that emphasizes skilled, engaged practice rather than disembodied rationali...

This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new technologies and extended connectivity of systems that underlie what is becoming known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D printing, the internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, big data and mobile networks.The WEF, OECD and UN all agree that humanity is on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revoluti...

Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive System-whether in science, public policy, or private commerce. This simple model of h...

This open access book explores a range of new and older systems mapping methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a practical manner, it describes the methods and considers the differences between them; describes how to use them yourself; describes how to choose between and combine them; considers the role of data, evidence, and stakeholder opinion; and describes how they can be useful in a range of policy and research settings. This book provides a key starting p...