Polycentric attributions

 Allen, T. F. H., and Thomas B. Starr. Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Anderies, John M., Marco A. Janssen, and Elinor Ostrom. “A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social–Ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective.” Ecology and Society 9, no. 1 (2004): 18.

Barabási, Albert-László. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Bejan, Adrian, and J. Peder Zane. Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization. New York: Doubleday, 2012.

Berkes, Fikret, and Carl Folke. “Linking Social and Ecological Systems for Resilience and Sustainability.” In Linking Social and Ecological Systems, edited by Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke, 1–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Berkes, Fikret, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke, eds. Navigating Social–Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Folke, Carl. “Resilience: The Emergence of a Perspective for Social–Ecological Systems Analyses.” Global Environmental Change 16, no. 3 (2006): 253–267.

Holling, C. S. “Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4 (1973): 1–23.

Holling, C. S., Lance H. Gunderson, and Donald Ludwig. “In Quest of a Theory of Adaptive Change.” In Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems, edited by Lance H. Gunderson and C. S. Holling, 3–22. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.

Janssen, Marco A., and Elinor Ostrom. “Empirically Based, Agent-Based Models.” Ecology and Society 11, no. 2 (2006): 37.

Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Levin, Simon A. “Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems.” Ecosystems 1 (1998): 431–436.

Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.

Meadows, Donella H. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.

Mitchell, Melanie. Complexity: A Guided Tour. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

O’Neill, Robert V., Donald L. DeAngelis, J. B. Waide, and Thomas F. H. Allen. A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

———. “Polycentric Systems for Coping with Collective Action and Global Environmental Change.” Global Environmental Change 20, no. 4 (2010): 550–557.

Ostrom, Elinor, Charles M. Tiebout, and Robert Warren. “The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas.” American Political Science Review 55, no. 4 (1961): 831–842.

Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.

Simon, Herbert A. “The Architecture of Complexity.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106, no. 6 (1962): 467–482.

Walker, Brian, and David Salt. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.

West, Geoffrey. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. New York: Penguin Press, 2017.

Wilson, David Sloan. This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution. New York: Pantheon Books, 2019