Risk, uncertainty and precaution: some instrumental implications from the social sciences

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Socio-Technological Regimes and Transition Contexts (2004, background): “This raises issues concerning the diversity and resilience of wider social commitments to particular technological trajectories and the extent to which these commitments might be withdrawn (Brooks 1985; Wynne, 1992; Stirling, 2003).”
Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Disasters: A Conceptual Overview (2005, background): “There is, in addition, now a vast social science literature on the concept of “risk”, some of which is closely related to the notion of “hazards” and thus of relevance to environmental decision making under uncertainty (Stirling 2003; Mehta et al. 2001).”
Indicators of university–industry knowledge transfer performance and their implications for universities: evidence from the United Kingdom (2015, background): “Hence, there is a need for more flexibility also in the ways of aggregating performance indicators (Stirling, 2003; Grupp and Schubert., 2010).”
The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management (2011, background): “…Stone 1988, Guba and Lincoln 1989, Lindblom 1990, Fischer and Forester 1993), environmental policy making (Hajer 1995, Hisschemöller et al. 2001), and technology and risk assessment (Wynne 1975, 1995, Stirling 2003, 2006) provides ample evidence of how knowledge production and politics intertwine.”