Severe climatic conditions, low population density, lack of infrastructure leave as the only possible nodular economic development of Arctic territories of the Russian Federation. In this case, a natural question arises: how to define points of growth, how to delineate those "patches of economic...

Our research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that a higher incidence of solar eclipses is associated with higher social complexity and complex thinking in premodern societies. We construct a novel dataset of solar eclipses' incidence at the ethnic-group level, bringing...

This paper introduces the concept of "interface of complexity" as a source of creating and dealing with possible participatory approaches to organisational development. Based on an actor-network-theory approach, we conceive of interfaces as complex events, situations and transitions in a...