Complexity is at our heart
Te Pūnaha Matatini is Aotearoa New Zealand's Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems.
How we make trust judgments when it comes to scientific information
An inability to find concrete answers to questions on the internet may lead people to question the general veracity of science.
Ngā mihi ki a tātou
Tēnei te mihi nui ki ngā kaikōrero, mō rātou whakaaro, moemoea, wawata. Our huge thanks to the contributors for their thoughts, dreams, aspirations.
Restoring the mana of the Rotorua/Te Arawa lakes
Something interesting has been happening in the Rotorua/Te Arawa lakes over the past decade or so. Instead of separating into factious groups, government, NGOs, iwi, members of the farming community, scientists and the wider community have united in kōrero and actions to support restoration efforts on the lakes. Perhaps this is a model for Aotearoa to follow?
Foundations of complex systems
Studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world.
