TY - JOUR
T1 - Complex systems for the most vulnerable
AU - Omodei, Elisa
AU - Garcia-Herranz, Manuel
AU - Paolotti, Daniela
AU - Tizzoni, Michele
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - In a rapidly changing world, facing an increasing number of socioeconomic, health and environmental crises, complexity science can help us to assess and quantify vulnerabilities, and to monitor and achieve the UN sustainable development goals. In this perspective, we provide three exemplary use cases where complexity science has shown its potential: poverty and socioeconomic inequalities, collective action for representative democracy, and computational epidemic modeling. We then review the challenges and limitations related to data, methods, capacity building, and, as a result, research operationalization. We finally conclude with some suggestions for future directions, urging the complex systems community to engage in applied and methodological research addressing the needs of the most vulnerable.
AB - In a rapidly changing world, facing an increasing number of socioeconomic, health and environmental crises, complexity science can help us to assess and quantify vulnerabilities, and to monitor and achieve the UN sustainable development goals. In this perspective, we provide three exemplary use cases where complexity science has shown its potential: poverty and socioeconomic inequalities, collective action for representative democracy, and computational epidemic modeling. We then review the challenges and limitations related to data, methods, capacity building, and, as a result, research operationalization. We finally conclude with some suggestions for future directions, urging the complex systems community to engage in applied and methodological research addressing the needs of the most vulnerable.
KW - complexity science
KW - sustainable development goals
KW - vulnerable populations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131134299&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/2632-072X/ac60b1
DO - 10.1088/2632-072X/ac60b1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131134299
SN - 2632-072X
VL - 3
JO - Journal of Physics: Complexity
JF - Journal of Physics: Complexity
IS - 2
M1 - 021001
ER -