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Complexity Theory: The Life Cycle of a Forest

C.S. "Buzz" Holling was born in 1930 and passed away in 2019. He was the initiator of the idea of resilience in ecosystems and his work has crossed disciplinary boundaries and been used by complexity theory experts, such as Homer-Dixon in 2006, to illustrate how complexity theory works. On this page, this work is explored as it helps to understand systems thinking. What is useful to know is that ecological thinking...

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