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"Uncertainty and risk" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Setting the scene
• 2- Introduction / Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson
• 3- The many faces and masks of uncertainty / Michael Smithson
• 4- Adopting orphans : uncertainty and other neglected aspects of complex problems / Gabriele Bammer
• 5- More than a cabinet of curiosities : disciplinary and practice perspectives on uncertainty
• 6- When action can't wait : investigating infectious disease outbreaks / Aileen J. Plant
• 7- Uncertainty and religion : ten provisional theses / Stephen Pickard
• 8- Uncertainty in the physical sciences : how big? how small? is it actually there at all? / Stephen J. Buckman
• 9- Statistics : an essential tool for model citizens / Robyn G. Attewell
• 10- A philosopher's guide to probability / Alan Hájek
• 11- Musical improvisation, creativity and uncertainty / John Mackey
• 12- Uncertainty as a creative force in visual art / Sasha Grishin
• 13- Historians and disputes over uncertainty / Ann Curthoys
• 14- Approaches to uncertain futures / Kate Delaney
• 15- Embracing social uncertainties with complex systems science / Pascal Perez
• 16- Heroin : injected with uncertainty / Alison Ritter
• 17- Political practice : uncertainty, ethics and outcomes / Michael Moore
• 18- Smoke and mirrors : managing uncertainty in the public health sector / Liz Furler
• 19- Economists and uncertainty / John Quiggin
• 20- Psychology's ambivalent view of uncertainty / Michael Smithson
• 21- Uncertainty in decision-making : intelligence as a solution / Steve Longford
• 22- Emergency management thrives on uncertainty / John Handmer
• 23- Uncertainty, complexity and environment / Stephen Dovers ... [et al.]
• 24- Uncertainty, terrorism and law enforcement / Michael McFadden, Rod Lyon and Roy Pinsker
• 25- Certainty as illusion : the nature and purpose of uncertainty in the law / Judith S. Jones
• 26- Unifying diversity
• 27- The nature of uncertainty / Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson and the Goolabri Group
• 28- Uncertainty metaphors, motives and morals / Michael Smithson, Gabriele Bammer and the Goolabri Group
• 29- Coping and managing under uncertainty / Michael Smithson, Gabriele Bammer and the Goolabri Group
• 30- Implications for risk assessment and management
• 31- Coping with deep uncertainty : challenges for environmental assessment and decision-making / Roger E. Kasperson
• 32- Risk, uncertainty and social controversy : from risk perception and communication to public engagement / Nick Pidgeon.

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