In this book the author Rupert Riedl investigates the structural and functional correlations
of issues considered as complex. He brilliantly analyzes the definition of complexity the
occurrence of complexity the meaning of complexity and last-but-not-least the way complexity
is dealt with professionally. In recent years our view of the world has been split into ever
smaller segments ¿ in part due to the increasing importance of the natural sciences and their
associated analytical power. This calls for once again focusing on complexity and the holistic
aspects on interdisciplinary and synoptic approaches. This book is a translation of the
original German version ¿Strukturen der Komplexität¿ which was published in 2000. The
discussion of complexity from the perspective of a biologist has long been overdue when it was
published and is still up-to-date.
