Role-play 5 – Researching and Shaping Climate Futures

On risks and uncertainties

27 Jun 201820 Aug 2018

For this role-play participants were confronted with the question, whether uncertainty make it easier for people to ignore the risks of climate change? Since the beginning it was established the…

A social scientists’ stand on Risk and Uncertainty in the Climate Change debate

25 Jun 201820 Aug 2018

"Does uncertainty make it easier for people to ignore the risk of climate change?" The natural scientists were the first to tackle this question such that they made clear that…

Politician-5th role play

14 Jun 201820 Aug 2018

The third role play confronted all participants with the question whether uncertainty make it easier for people to ignore the risks of climate change. From a scientific point of view…

Conflation of Uncertainty and Risk: A weapon for Denialists or a tool for Environmental NGOs

14 Jun 201820 Aug 2018

Musjav, jihjeo and I were tasked with representing the perspectives of Environmental Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in a discussion with other groups representing the views of Natural and Social Scientists, Politicians…

On the notions of risk and uncertainty

13 Jun 201820 Aug 2018

Uncertainty and risk seemed to have been clearly defined and separated. While uncertainty refers to the state of incomplete knowledge, e.g. resulting from the lack of information and can be…