Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems

Part I. Societal and Ecological Systems.- ProtestLab - A Computational Laboratory for Studying Street Protests.- A Generic Agent based Model of Historical Social Behavior Change.- Understanding Social Systems Research.- ForestSim: An Agent-Based Simulation for Bioenergy Sustainability Assessment.- Toward a Complex Concept of Sustainability.- Effects of Policy Decision-making on Riparian Corridors in a Semi-arid Desert: a Modeling Approach.- Part II. Approaches for Understanding, Modeling, Forecasting and Mastering Complex Systems.- Dialectical Systems Theory as a Way to Handle Complex Systems.- Reducing Complexity of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems.- A Few Reflections on the Quality of Emergence in Complex Collective Systems.- Link Structure Analysis of Urban street Networks for Delineating Traffic Impact Areas.- Logic, Mathematics and Consistency in Literature: Searching for Don Quixote's Place.- Energy-Efficient Buildings as Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Approaches and Challenges.- Part III. Real-life examples.- Modelling Space-Time-Action Modularity and Evolution of Living Systems.