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dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-04T09:48:18Z
dc.date.available2024-12-04T09:48:18Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95698
dc.description.abstractUncertainties 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.otherSocial sciences; rethinkingen_US
dc.titleNavigating Uncertaintyen_US
dc.title.alternativeRadical Rethinking for a Turbulent Worlden_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByPolity Press
oapen.relation.isFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781509560080en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781509560073en_US
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_US
oapen.pages234en_US
oapen.grant.number740342
oapen.grant.projectPASTRES


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