Maurizio Cafagno – Public Management of the Environment as Dialogue among Complex Systems
Maurizio Cafagno – Professore ordinario di Diritto Amministrativo, Università dell’Insubria – (maurizio.cafagno@uninsubria.it) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: the environment as a complex, adaptive system and natural services as emergent phenomena.2. Mismatch problems.3. The public administration as a complex system and the law of requisite variety; 3a) Exploration and strategic anticipation; 3b) Institutional experimentation and policy labs; 3c) Embodied learning.4. A summary formula: adaptive management.5. Counterpoint conclusions. Contemporary environmental law is affected by a profound tension, arising out of the interface between two apparently irreconcilable dimensions: on the one hand the constant fluidity within ecosystems, with their non-linear dynamics, their critical thresholds and their multiple equilibria;Read More →



