This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to
understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented
challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of
contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to
explore your own way of perceiving your own area of work. An
outstanding contribution that will stay on my shelves for many
years. Dr Neil T. M. Hamilton, Director, WWF International Arctic
Programme This collection of essays provides a unique and
fascinating overview of perspectives on uncertainty and risk across
a wide variety of disciplines. It is a valuable and accessible
sourcebook for specialists and laypeople alike. Professor Renate
Schubert, Head of the Institute for Environmental Decisions and
Chair of Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
This comprehensive collection of disciplinary perspectives on
uncertainty is a definitive guide to contemporary insights into
this Achilles heel of modernity and the endemic hubris of
institutional science in its role as public authority. It gives
firm foundations to the fundamental historic shift now underway in
the world, towards normalizing acceptance of the immanent condition
of ignorance and of its practical corollaries: contingency,
uncontrol, and respect for difference. Brian Wynne, Professor of
Science Studies, Lancaster University Bammer and Smithson have
assembled a fascinating, important collection of papers on
uncertainty and its management. The integrative nature of
Uncertainty and Risk makes it a landmark in the intellectual
history of this vital cross-disciplinary concept. George
Cvetkovich, Director, Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western
Washington University Uncertainty governs our lives. From the
unknowns of living with the risks of terrorism to developing
policies on genetically modified foods, or disaster planning for
catastrophic climate change, how we conceptualize, evaluate and
cope with uncertainty drives our actions and deployment of
resources, decisions and priorities. In this thorough and
wide-ranging volume, theoretical perspectives are drawn from art
history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law,
philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. On a
practical level, uncertainty is examined in emergency management,
intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. Key
problems that are a subject of focus are environmental management,
communicable diseases and illicit drugs. Opening and closing
sections of the book provide major conceptual strands in
uncertainty thinking and develop an integrated view of the nature
of uncertainty, uncertainty as a motivating or de-motivating force,
and strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty.
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