Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope

Michèle Indira Friend is temporarily a researcher with UCCS: Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide at Université Lille Nord-Europe. More permanently, she is Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. She is a member of the International Society for Systems Science, the International Society for Ecological Economics, the Association of Symbolic Logic, the International Society for Philosophy of Chemistry and many others. She is a philosopher of: logic, mathematics, relativity theory, chemistry, systems science, economics and the environment.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. General Introduction.- Chapter 2. Vocabulary.- Chapter 3. The State of the Art in Decision Making.- Part II: The Method for Constructing The Institutional Compass.- Chapter 4. The Three Qualities Again.- Chapter 5. Constructing an Institutional Compass: Methodology.- Part III: Scope: More Uses of The Institutional Compass and Some Extensions.- Chapter 6. Merging the Compass with Systems Science.- Chapter 7. Adapting The Compass to Align with Ecological Economics Thinking.- Chapter 8. Further Manipulations and Extensions using the Notion of Sphere.- Chapter 9. The Compass as Representation.- Chapter 10. The Compass for Qualitative Accounting. Part IV: Actual Case-Studies and Conclusion.- Chapter 11. Case Study I: The World Health Organisation. Chapter 12. Case Study II: Report on Produce Label Project.- Chapter 13. Case Study III: Regional Compass Hauts-de-France, Superimposing a Biorefinery. Chapter 14. Concluding Philosophical Remarks.