Navigating Uncertainty

Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explore...

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Hoofdauteur: Scoones, Ian
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Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: 2024
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description Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explores, this is much more than just managing risk. But how is this done, and what can we learn from different contexts about responding to and living with uncertainty? Indeed, what might it mean to live from uncertainty? Drawing on experiences from across the world, the chapters in this book explore finance and banking, technology regulation, critical infrastructures, pandemics, natural disasters and climate change. Each chapter contrasts an approach centred on risk and control, where we assume we know about and can manage the future, with one that is more flexible, responding to uncertainty. The book argues that we need to adjust our modernist, controlling view and to develop new approaches, including some reclaimed and adapted from previous times or different cultures. This requires a radical rethinking of policies, institutions and practices for successfully navigating uncertainties in an increasingly turbulent world.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1483092024-12-10T05:16:17Z Navigating Uncertainty Scoones, Ian Social sciences; rethinking thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explores, this is much more than just managing risk. But how is this done, and what can we learn from different contexts about responding to and living with uncertainty? Indeed, what might it mean to live from uncertainty? Drawing on experiences from across the world, the chapters in this book explore finance and banking, technology regulation, critical infrastructures, pandemics, natural disasters and climate change. Each chapter contrasts an approach centred on risk and control, where we assume we know about and can manage the future, with one that is more flexible, responding to uncertainty. The book argues that we need to adjust our modernist, controlling view and to develop new approaches, including some reclaimed and adapted from previous times or different cultures. This requires a radical rethinking of policies, institutions and practices for successfully navigating uncertainties in an increasingly turbulent world. 2024-12-10T05:16:16Z 2024-12-10T05:16:16Z 2024-12-04T09:48:18Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95698 9781509560080 9781509560073 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/148309 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/95698/1/9781509565085_epdf.pdf 3f0a4da2-418f-411a-ae5f-8d27e0601aec 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781509560080 9781509560073 European Research Council (ERC) 234 740342 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council 10.13039/100010663 open access
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