Complexidade e Desenvolvimento

• Main Author: Benedito Neto Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul 2004-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento em Questão
• Subjects: complexity; development paradigms; development theories
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=75220402

The paper has the objective of analyzing some contributions of the complexity approach for the studies on the development. The presupposition in him adopted it is that such contributions derive of the understanding of the complexity approach under two different point of view. The first is it of the complexity while a new scientific paradigm. The second point of view is it of the complexity as a scientific theory. The analysis of the literature evidences the importance given by several authors to the complexity approach while a new scientific paradigm, besides for the studies on the development. On the other hand, of a theoretical point of view, the literature analyzed in the paper indicates that the results of the researches about the complexity are still quite generic.