Law, Public Policies and Complex Systems: Networks in Action (Law, Governance and Technology Series Book 42)

"This book investigates how various scientific communities – e.g. legal scientists, political scientists, sociologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists – study law and public policies, which are portrayed here as complex systems. Today, research on law and public policies is rapidly developing at the international level, relying heavily on modeling that employs innovative methods for concrete implementation. Among the subject matter discussed, law as a network of evolving and interactive norms is now a prominent sphere of study. Similarly, public policies are now a topic in their own right, as policy can no longer be examined as a linear process; rather, its study should reflect the complexity of the networks of actors, norms and resources involved, as well as the uncertainty or weak predictability of their direct or indirect impacts. The book is divided into three maain parts: complexity faced by jurists, complexity in action and public policies, and complexity and networks. The main themes examined concern codification, governance, climate change, normative networks, health, water management, use-related conflicts, legal regime conflicts, and the use of indicators."-- Back cover Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Public Policies, Law, Complexities and Networks (Pierre Mazzega, Claire Lajaunie, Romain Boulet)....Pages 1-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Codification, Between Legal Complexity and Computer Science Agility (Élisabeth Catta, Alexandre Delliaux)....Pages 13-33 Organizational Consciousness Versus Artificial Consciousness (Claire Lajaunie, Pierre Mazzega)....Pages 35-56 The Entity-Process Framework for Integrated Agent-Based Modeling of Social-Ecological Systems (Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Olivier Therond, Claude Monteil, Pierre Mazzega)....Pages 57-86 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 An Interdisciplinary Study of Leptospirosis Surveillance Systems in Three Regencies of East Java, Indonesia (Bianca van Bavel, Fiona Larkan, Jarlath E. Nally, Armand Purwati)....Pages 89-112 Complexity of Scenarios of Future Health: Integrating Policies and Laws (Claire Lajaunie, Serge Morand, Pierre Mazzega)....Pages 113-131 Architectural Pattern for Health Forecasting, Surveillance and Early Warning Systems (Ricardo De Gainza, Christine A. Romana)....Pages 133-152 Water Management and Development: The Limits of Coordination (Pierre Mazzega, Dominique Le Queau, Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Daniel Sant’Ana)....Pages 153-175 Formal Analysis of the Conflictive Play of Actors Regarding the Building of a Dam (Christophe Sibertin-Blanc)....Pages 177-202 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 Exploiting the Web of Law (Radboud Winkels)....Pages 205-219 Environmental and Trade Regimes: Comparison of Hypergraphs Modeling the Ratifications of UN Multilateral Treaties (Romain Boulet, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Pierre Mazzega)....Pages 221-242 How to Compare Bundles of National Environmental and Development Indexes? (Pierre Mazzega, Claire Lajaunie, Jimmy Leblet, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Charles Chansardon)....Pages 243-265 Network Theory and Legal Information “for” Reality: A Triple Support for Deliberation, Decision Making, and Legal Expertise (Ugo Pagallo)....Pages 267-280 The two-volume set LNCS 10046 and 10047 constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2016, held in Bellevue, WA, USA, in November 2016. The 33 full papers and 34 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: networks, communities, and groups; politics, news, and events; markets, crowds, and consumers; and privacy, health, and well-being. The two-volume set LNCS 10046 and 10047 constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2016, held in Bellevue, WA, USA, in November 2016. The 36 full papers and 39 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: networks, communities, and groups; politics, news, and events; markets, crowds, and consumers; and privacy, health, and well-being