Impact Trust • Working glossary
Complex adaptive system
A system made of many interacting parts that can’t be taken apart and reassembled – its properties emerge from interactions, not from individual components.
Details
Context introduced
Foundational concept for polycrisis thinking; the label is academic but the idea (“you can’t understand a forest by studying individual trees”) is graspable.
Source
Complexity science, ecology, organisational theory
Source / First Appears In
SenseMaker TDT session / Cascade Institute TDT session
Authors
Impact Trust team
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