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Navigating Uncertainty : Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scoones, Ian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uncertainty.
- Risk--Sociological aspects.
- Risk.
- Risk assessment--Political aspects.
- Risk assessment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : Polity Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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?
- 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
- 4 Critical Infrastructures: How to Keep the Lights On and the Animals Alive
- Normal accidents
- Electricity systems: keeping the lights on in California
- Pastoral systems: responding to drought and disease
- Beyond the politics of design and control
- 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
- From Sendai to southern Ethiopia
- Techno-managerial solutions
- Preparing for the worst
- Insuring against disaster
- The politics of disasters
- 7 Climate Change: Multiple Knowledges, Diverse Actions
- Promises of prediction
- The social and political lives of climate models
- Adapting to climate change
- Local responses.
- Co-producing knowledge for action
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781509565085
- 1509565086
- OCLC:
- 1450837668
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