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Understanding the emergence and evolution of structure and pattern in natural and human systems is one of the most important, and complex questions that can be addressed. The transition from simply describing and mapping spatial patterns, to understanding how they emerge and how they can change over time has proved to be difficult. In general we can say that the latter questions did not even begin to receive a mathematical framework within which answers might be sought, until the study of dissipative structures (Nicolis and Prigogine, 1977, Prigogine, Herman and Allen, 1977) and synergetic systems (Haken, 1977) began some 15 years ago.
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Allen, P.M. (1993). Spatial Evolution in Complex Systems. In: Nijkamp, P., Reggiani, A. (eds) Nonlinear Evolution of Spatial Economic Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78463-7_8
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