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The Social Labs Revolution A New Approach to Solving our Mos Format: Paperback

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Intended Audience: General/trade Item Width: 5.5 in gtin13: 9781626560734 Book Title: Social Labs Revolution : a New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges Publication Year: 2014 Number of Pages: 208 Pages Item Height: 0.7 in Genre: Political Science, Social Science Author: Zaid Hassan Topic: Public Policy / General, Sociology / General, General, Public Policy / Social Policy, Research Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated Type: book Narrative Type: book Item Length: 8.4 in ISBN: 9781626560734 Item Weight: 10.2 Oz Language: English Format: Trade Paperback

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Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response.

Social labs bring together a diverse a group of stakeholders—not to create yet another five-year plan but to develop a portfolio of prototype solutions, test those solutions in the real world, use the data to further refine them, and test them again. Hassan builds on a decade of experience—as well as drawing from cutting-edge research in complexity science, networking theory, and sociology—to explain the core principles and daily functioning of social labs, using examples of pioneering labs from around the world. He offers a new generation of problem solvers an effective, practical, and exciting new vision and guide.

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