TY - THES Y1 - 2009/// A1 - Beeftink, M.J. ID - theses_frw2575 UR - https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/2575/ M1 - master N2 - Peri-urban areas are increasingly complex and a specific entities with adaptive capacities. Transitions are a feature of complex adaptive systems to adapt to changed contexts, including fundamental changes. Warsaw?s peri-urban area is currently going through a transition, from heavily industrialised towards a service economy, with fundamental spatial(-economic) consequences. TI - Transitions in complex adaptive systems: non-linear dynamics in the peri-urban area. A case study of Warsaw (Poland) AV - public ER -