Complexity in Climate Change and Key Indicators

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Type of complexity in climate change.........................................................................................................2
Temporal complexity...............................................................................................................................2
Directional complexity.............................................................................................................................2
Structural complexity..............................................................................................................................3
Technical complexity...............................................................................................................................3
The Key complexity indicators involved in climate change..........................................................................3
Type of varieties that lead to climate change (Ashby law concept).............................................................5
Climate Change Survey Questions...............................................................................................................5
Climate Change Survey Questions.................................................................................................5
The Interview Sheet.....................................................................................................................................7
Questions Analysis.......................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................11
References.................................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
While NASA is spending a lot of many and resources on Mars exploration, earth’s
oceans are unknown. Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson thinks that the U.S. space program is
underfunded, which reduces its potential. At the same time, Michael Conathan says that the
Government spends money unwisely. Nevertheless, global community is facing a new threat –
climate change. People need to understand that it affects all spheres of their life. Being an
international crisis, climate change concerns all countries (Lejano, 2019). Mankind should learn
how to deal with climate change and adapt to it. Climate change poses great risks such as
extreme weather, melting ice, rising seas, shifting rainfall, floods, droughts, cyclones, and health
problems. And it is not the full list. It affects the whole world, but not all regions are in the same
positions. Some countries face critical problems right now. Others will face them in the near
future (Matsumoto, 2019). Risks of climate change can be grouped into different categories, for
instance, risks to human health, global food security, economic development, and to the natural
environment.
Type of complexity in climate change
Temporal complexity
Drastic changes in the environment cause a temporal complexity in the management of
climate change. For instance, Climate change transforms the natural world. Oceans and rivers
become bigger, ice melts, flora and fauna changes: new species appear, while other species
become extinct. Expanding oceans due to rising temperatures concern every nation in the world,
but northern and island nations are under the greater impact (Barrage & Furst, 2019).
Directional complexity
The number of stakeholders involved in the management of the impacts of climate
change leads to directional complexity. Every single stakeholder, be it NASA or the

commonwealth have their own agendas, goals and objectives that they want met besides the
goals and objectives of various nations. These varying paths lead to directional complexity when
managing climate change.
Structural complexity
Climate change being a global phenomenon has very many interconnecting parts and also
numerous stakeholders. Structural complexity of climate change increases with increase in the
number of stakeholders among other factors. One country cannot cope with it. Only cooperation
can solve this problem, but it is hard to reach an agreement between all nations. Some countries
do not want to spend money on studies about climate change, while others do not have money to
spend (Jost, Dale, & Schwebel, 2019).
Technical complexity
Climate change is a great challenge for international law, too. Differences in bills and
types of governments make it impossible to take actions immediately. Sometimes, in order to
sign an agreement, countries need to rewrite their own laws. International lawmaking should
create a special system in order to simplify this process. It requires many resources, a lot of
money, and qualified scientists (Franchini & Mannucci, 2015). Not all countries have a good
education system, which makes it impossible to exchange knowledge and experience. In
technical complexity, climate change possess a major challenge in managing the expectations of
major stakeholders.
The Key complexity indicators involved in climate change
(i) Project Objectives: This type of complexity addresses complexities due to mutual
conflicting goals and management of key stakeholder’s expectations because the problem
of climate change has various stakeholders all with their own requirements and
objectives.