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| | Governance through Metaphor Project |
 | | The 1991 edition presented descriptions of 88 metaphors elaborated as an editorial experiment in facilitating comprehension of transition and change, especially in some ordered manner between complementary alternatives. |
 | | The phenomena selected as substrates for the metaphors include: those familiar to everybody (eg walking, breathing), those especially significant to rural communities (eg crop-rotation, getting water, animal movement), those familiar to industrialized societies (eg driving, media diets, vitamins) and some key physical or technological phenomena (eg electric motors, metabolic pathways, magnetic containment of plasma). |
 | | Earlier editions of the Encyclopedia have used the Chinese Book of Changes as a template for the generation of metaphors relevant to networking (1986) and policy-cycles (1991). |
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