Mini-thread: Uncertainty is part of life, and it matters a *lot* for sustainability!
Ahead of our #PoliticsOfUncertainty symposium, some resources on why we need to think about uncertainty and how we can respond to it...
(Event page: steps-centre.org/event/the-poli…)
Paper by @IanScoones: 'What is Uncertainty and Why Does it Matter?'
- what uncertainty *is*
- what it means for society, politics, culture, practice & individuals; for finance, infrastructure, disease, climate and disasters
- useful methods & approaches
steps-centre.org/publication/wh…
@IanScoones Blog post: Politics in the language of uncertainty.
Why does uncertainty often get closed down to 'risk', and what are the dangers of overstating confidence in probabilities? by Andy Stirling @SPRU
steps-centre.org/blog/politics-…
(image: flic.kr/p/dcwaNj)
@IanScoones @SPRU Video: Why uncertainty isn't just about risk
(4 min)
Andy Stirling, introduces different forms of uncertainty (risk, ambiguity, uncertainty and ignorance), and explains why treating all uncertainty as risk can lead to neglecting some important questions.
@IanScoones @SPRU Video: Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
(49 min)
Lecture by @IanScoones on the implications of #uncertainty for thinking and practice in international development.
@IanScoones @SPRU Video: Knowing, not knowing... and power
(63 min)
Andy Stirling examines different kinds of uncertainty, how decision making deals with them, and how power affects the way that uncertainty is treated in policy and practice.
@IanScoones @SPRU Blog: Art, uncertainty and system change
@beckyayre on how art can unsettle and provoke audiences in embracing uncertainty and opening up new possibilities, with reference to @Futures_HIVE
steps-centre.org/blog/art-uncer…
@IanScoones @SPRU @beckyayre @Futures_HIVE Blog: Negotiating uncertainties on the Tibetan plateau in China pastres.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/neg…
Post from the @PASTRES_erc project - how pastoralists on the Tibetan plateau respond to rapid change and uncertainty in environment, markets, institutions and policy.
@IanScoones @SPRU @beckyayre @Futures_HIVE @PASTRES_erc Views from the coast: uncertainty beyond climate change
steps-centre.org/blog/views-coa…
How fishing communities in Mumbai experience climate change as one of many sources of uncertainty that interact and reinforce each other.
@IanScoones @SPRU @beckyayre @Futures_HIVE @PASTRES_erc Visit our page on Uncertainty to find out more:
steps-centre.org/uncertainty/
and follow the #PoliticsOfUncertainty hashtag on 3-5 July for updates from our symposium at @IDS_UK
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