Keep it complex

By A. Stirling. Nature, 2010

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Assessing the regulatory challenges of emerging disruptive technologies (2021, background): “As Stirling (2010) noted, different kinds of uncertainty exist and not all situations of knowledge and ignorance demand the same policy response.”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “…alternative paradigms and practices are likely to be ‘generative’: receptive to complexity and ambiguity, aware of researchers’ participation in the phenomena they describe, and committed to ethical, deliberative participation in practice (van Kerkhoff 2014; Stirling 2010; Norström et al. 2020).”
The Three Tomorrows of Postnormal Times (2016, background): “Instead, experts should pay more attention to neglected areas of uncertainty as well as deeper challenge of ambiguity and ignorance’ (Stirling, 2010).”
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions (2020, background): “Either way, the contemporary context presents an interesting moment to study of this directionality [134] of an increasingly decentralised energy transition.”
The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms (2015, background): “Instead, such decisions are essentially political: science can support decisions (e.g. through life cycle assessments) but cannot be a substitute for them (Stirling, 2010).”