The world faces a multiplicity of global catastrophic risks (GCRs), whose functionality as individual and collective complex adaptive networks (CANs) poses unique problems for governance in a world that itself comprises an intricately interlinked set of CANs.Here we examine necessary conditions for new approaches to governance that take account of the known properties of CANs -especially, that small changes in one part of the system can cascade and amplify throughout the system, and that the system as a whole can also undergo rapid, dramatic and often unpredictable change with little or no warning.Introduction!
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