Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable
By Stephen R. Carpenter, Carl Folke, Marten Scheffer, Frances Westley. 2009
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Plans to solve complex environmental problems should always consider the role of surprise. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to emphasize known computable aspects of a problem while neglecting aspects that are unknown and failing to ask questions about them. The tendency to ignore the noncomputable can be countered by considering a wide range of perspectives, encouraging transparency with regard to conflicting viewpoints, stimulating a diversity of models, and managing for the emergence of new syntheses that reorganize fragmentary knowledge.
Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches (2018, background): “This often involves participatory approaches, as well as collaborative governance strategies to navigate the surprise and uncertainty that may result (Carpenter et al. 2009, Folke et al. 2016).”
- Making a Difference Strategies for Scaling Social Innovation for Greater Impact (2010, background): “…spoken of the possibility of a “perfect storm”: the intersection of rapid climate change, decreasing fossil fuel supplies, food shortages, and economic collapse – and the extreme difficulty of really understanding the dynamics of these problems, due to their complexity (Carpenter et al., 2009).”
- Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development (2012, background): “For this reason, new approaches are needed to determine the validity of results and help interpret uncertainty (Holling 1978, Shrader-Frechette and McCoy 1993, Nowotny et al. 2001, Hoffmann-Riem and Wynne 2002, Sutherland et al. 2004, Carpenter et al. 2009, Gross 2010).”
- An uncertain future, deep uncertainty, scenarios, robustness and adaptation: How do they fit together? (2016, background): “A second common requirement is the need to be open to qualitative input into an otherwise model-driven analysis (Carpenter et al., 2009).”