The question here is how to describe and handle this epistemological challenge for governance.
Governance can then endeavour to move the social system over the landscape.
Consequently the epistemological landscape perceived by one group may be very different from that which is meaningful to another - such that each may be the basis for the strategies and programmes of a different intergovernmental agency. It is therefore less fruitful to focus initially on any particular way of viewing the n-dimensional phase space. Navigating through complexity Before taking the argument further it is necessary to avoid the trap of using the phase space notion itself as a fundamental window. It is a powerful tool but not necessarily convenient for all. Although it would be incompatible with the theme of this section to favour any one such description, it is important to recognize the range of attempts to indicate the epistemological attributes at this level of abstraction.