https://www.scmp.com/rss/503764/feed Ambassador (Ret.) David Carden served as the first resident US Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). As US Ambassador, he oversaw the broadening engagement of the United States in Southeast Asia. Under his leadership, the US Mission to Asean focused on the human and natural systems that affect the region and worked to build alliances to help Asean achieve it goals. He is also the author of "Mapping ASEAN: Achieving Peace, Prosperity and Sustainability in Southeast... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The global threat posed by the novel coronavirus presents a compelling new argument for using complex adaptive systems thinking to address our global challenges. These challenges emerge from a set of interrelationships among the physical, biological, social, cultural and technological elements of our world. We will need to understand them if we are to effectively combat this new disease and others that surely will follow. Complex adaptive systems thinking emerged in the 1980s. It is based on the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3051137/climate-change-coronavirus-complex-adaptive-systems-thinking-key?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3051137/climate-change-coronavirus-complex-adaptive-systems-thinking-key?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Feb 2020 02:00:09 +0000