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Time to reflect Hobbs reflects about what could happen if people adopted some of these ideas, compared with business as usual, imagining the position from a 2050 viewpoint. This chapter provides an opportunity to sum up the more abstract characteristics of the proposed approach and contrast this with a ‘status quo’ scenario. This technique allows a handle to be put on what constantly seems to be an insurmountable challenge of transdisciplinarity in addressing complexity, with a default positioning in the ‘without’ scenario. Hobbs concludes that the role of social science is fundamental to the success of this endeavour, with its capability of facilitating expansion into ‘the adjacent possible’ in many small ways. Finally, the characteristics of the persisting deterministic framework are contrasted with an adjacent possible emergent framework.

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Hobbs, C. (2019). With or Without?. In: Systemic Leadership for Local Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-08280-2_8

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