Navigating Uncertainty : Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World

Navigating Uncertainty Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scoones, Ian (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : Polity Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Uncertainty.
Risk > Sociological aspects.
Risk assessment > Political aspects.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • 1 Navigating Uncertainty
  • Introduction
  • Centring uncertainty
  • A risk society?
  • Locating uncertainties
  • Risk, uncertainty and ignorance: what do we mean?
  • Diverse perspectives
  • What about politics?
  • Themes and questions
  • 2 Finance: Real Markets as Complex Systems
  • A complex, opaque and poorly regulated financial system
  • Models and mayhem
  • Regulatory manoeuvres
  • Political economies
  • Real markets in pastoral areas
  • The human touch
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Technology: What Is Safe and for Whom?
  • Introduction
  • Risk assessment and management: attempts at control
  • What about uncertainty?
  • Biotechnology battles
  • Regulatory contexts
  • Science and the law
  • Regulation, precaution and ethics
  • Science, technology and society
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Critical Infrastructures: How to Keep the Lights On and the Animals Alive
  • Introduction
  • Normal accidents
  • Electricity systems: keeping the lights on in California
  • Pastoral systems: responding to drought and disease
  • Beyond the politics of design and control
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Pandemics: Building Responses from Below
  • Epidemiological certainties?
  • Complexity, uncertainty and grounded experiences
  • Zimbabwe: where there are no models
  • Unsung heroes
  • The politics of pandemics
  • Rethinking pandemic preparedness
  • 6 Disasters: Why Prediction and Planning Are Not Enough
  • Introduction
  • From Sendai to southern Ethiopia
  • Techno-managerial solutions
  • Preparing for the worst
  • Insuring against disaster
  • The politics of disasters
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Climate Change: Multiple Knowledges, Diverse Actions
  • Introduction
  • Promises of prediction
  • The social and political lives of climate models
  • Adapting to climate change
  • Local responses.
  • Co-producing knowledge for action
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Looking Forward: From Fear to Hope, from Control to Care
  • An uncertain world
  • Navigating uncertainty
  • Complex, non-linear systems
  • Individual and collective capacities for generating reliability
  • Policy and decision-making processes
  • Political economy contexts
  • Ways forward?
  • A paradigm shift: learning lessons from the margins
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1 Navigating Uncertainty
  • Chapter 2 Finance: Real Markets as Complex Systems
  • Chapter 3 Technology: What Is Safe and for Whom?
  • Chapter 4 Critical Infrastructures: How to Keep the Lights On and the Animals Alive
  • Chapter 5 Pandemics: Building Responses from Below
  • Chapter 6 Disasters: Why Prediction and Planning Are Not Enough
  • Chapter 7 Climate Change: Multiple Knowledges, Diverse Actions
  • Chapter 8 Looking Forward: From Fear to Hope, from Control to Care
  • References
  • Index
  • EULA.

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