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Complexity, Climate Change and the Precautionary Principle [PDF]
The precautionary principle has been proposed as a basis making decisions about environmental health under conditions of uncertainty, but remains controversial.
John Quiggin
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Toward a Relational Concept of Uncertainty: about Knowing Too Little, Knowing Too Differently, and Accepting Not to Know [PDF]
, 2008 Uncertainty of late has become an increasingly important and controversial topic in water resource management, and natural resources management in general.
Claudia Pahl-Wostl +7 more
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The Pareto principle of optimal inequality [PDF]
inequality aversion, Pareto principle, uncertainty, time ...
BOMMIER, Antoine, ZUBER, Stéphane
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Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Economics: From Theory to Policy [PDF]
A lack of awareness and understanding of risk and uncertainty can lead to poor decision making and higher costs for policy providers, as not accounting for them may produce policy which is inflexible and with a negative effect on welfare.
Lobb, Alexandra E.
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Rationality and dynamic consistency under risk and uncertainty [PDF]
, 2013 For choice with deterministic consequences, the standard rationality hypothesis is ordinality - i.e., maximization of a weak preference ordering. For choice under risk (resp.
Zank, Horst; id_orcid +4 more
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Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]
, 2009 The world’s scientific community must be in a state of constant readiness to address the threat posed by newly emerging infectious diseases. Whether the disease in question is SARS in humans or BSE in animals, scientists must be able to put into action ...
Cummings, L
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Teaching Uncertainty: The Case of Climate Change [PDF]
The concept of uncertainty plays a significant role in higher education in the 21st century. However; the pedagogy of uncertainty tends to focus on ontology and the feelings of uncertainty experienced by teachers and students, as opposed to treating ...
Hall, Brendan Michael
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Radiation and generalized uncertainty principle [PDF]
, 2018 This paper tries to investigate the effect of Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) on one of the physical concepts. In this study which is based on our previous work Moayedi et al.
B. Khosropour
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Applying uncertainty considerations to energy conservation equations [PDF]
, 2007 When applying computer simulation tools in practice uncertainties abound, for example in material properties and boundary conditions. To facilitate the quantification of the effects of uncertainties, the differential, factorial and Monte Carlo methods ...
Clarke, Joseph Andrew +3 more
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Social Decision-Making under Scientific Controversy, Expertise, and the Precautionary Principle [PDF]
Integrating scientific inputs into the regulatory process is generally attributed to experts. But, environmental issues are often characterised by an all-pervasive uncertainty and scientific and social controversies which make the experts' task difficult.
Olivier Godard
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