There is no consensus in the literature on the best means for actors to pursue deliberate transformation  and the extent to which actors can guide the process. The transitions and some transformation literature derive from a complex systems perspective  in which behaviours can be understood but not predicted . These literatures suggest that interventions in such systems will rarely result in them evolving along some pre-determined pathway. Rather, successful interventions more often resemble iterative processes of action, observation and response, which are described in the literature with terms such as iterative risk management , clumsy solutions , probe and response  and what Young  calls adaptive governance.
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